blacksmith

[blak-smith]

noun

1. a person who makes horseshoes and shoes horses.

2. a person who forges objects of iron.

3. a blackish damselfish, Chromis punctipinnis, inhabiting coastal waters off southern California.

blacksmith

/ ˈblækˌsmɪθ /

noun

1. an artisan who works iron with a furnace, anvil, hammer, etc

Word History and Origins

Origin of blacksmith¹

1250–1300; Middle English; black (in reference to iron or black metal), smith ( def. ); whitesmith

Word History and Origins

Origin of blacksmith¹

C14: see _black , _smith

Example Sentences

Anderson is also in want of a blacksmith and nailer to be paid wages as a foreman, which would therefore make them white.

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She might have slept longer, after the exhausting hike of the previous day, but that plunk—plunk—plunking sound was as insistent as a blacksmith’s hammer.

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The game was played on a field behind the shop of the local blacksmith.

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Became a blacksmith — he put the shoes on the horses that Barton and his constables were going to use to pursue Las Manillas.

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At the Radhwan house, the blacksmith finally dared to open his eyes five minutes after the gunmen left, only to find 17 of his family members bloodied around him.

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