smithery
Americannoun
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smitheries
plural
noun
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the trade or craft of a blacksmith
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a rare word for smithy
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Every fourth or fifth joke has the air of having been hammered out on an anvil, and a few might have been better left in the smithery.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2025
You rarely see Halbrand alone before the finale, save for this moment when he’s in the smithery, staring at his pouch, making his decision.
From New York Times ● Oct. 14, 2022
If he learns smithery, he also learns . . . ah! what does he learn to set against smithery?—the law?
From The Romany Rye a sequel to "Lavengro" by Theodore Watts-Dunton
Blacksmith, in debt something like £15 for smithery coal, comes from his forge at the side of the house to meet him.
From The Early Life of Mark Rutherford (W. Hale White) by Mark Rutherford
His ears are nailed to his books; and deadened with the sound of the Greek and Latin tongues, and the din and smithery of school-learning.
From Table Talk Essays on Men and Manners by William Hazlitt
Some will end up as Mordor-like archipelagos filled with lava and smitheries; others will become lush waterfall-filled spaces.
From The Verge ● Jul. 15, 2021
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