smithy
noun
the workshop of a smith, especially a blacksmith.
smithies
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pluralof smithy.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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The plan was equally straightforward: Community-owned farms would feed everyone and fund additional industries, including apiaries, hatcheries, canneries, smithies, brickyards and even a film studio.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 11, 2023
Subtext, allusion, nuance, dramatic irony: these were the smithies upon which mistakes were forged.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 12, 2017
But a large offshore financial centre will typically have 80-120 corporate smithies, the World Bank reckons.
From Economist ● Apr. 4, 2012
Dust comes and settles on piano lids in arts centres, old Bibles in attics, / shelves, rugs, laundries, smithies, abandoned mills .
From The Guardian ● Jul. 8, 2011
He needed a high spot, above the smoke and stir of the fire mines and the smithies.
From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman
