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US
/ˈbɫæksˌmɪθ/
]
[ UK /blˈæksmɪθ/ ]
[ UK /blˈæksmɪθ/ ]
NOUN
- a smith who forges and shapes iron with a hammer and anvil
How To Use blacksmith In A Sentence
- The blacksmith pounded an iron sheet out to a wash-basin.
- It's only what my dad would call corroborative evidence, or proof, "remarked William; whose father, although a blacksmith, was considered one of the best read men in Stanhope, and able to argue with The Banner Boy Scouts on a Tour, or, The Mystery of Rattlesnake Mountain
- Then he repaired to a blacksmith, after stripping her and her damsels of their silken apparel and clothing them in raiment of hair-cloth, and bade him make three pairs of iron shackles. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
- Shops and open markets lined the streets, blacksmiths and leather shops had iron workings and hides tanning outside.
- On top there was the firemen, and what we called the hoist engineer (he run the bucket, the scooping bucket up and down, you know, in the mine), and a blacksmith, and a blacksmith's helper. Oral History Interview with Dock E. Hall, January 7, 1976. Interview H-0271. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
- Blacksmith's Forge is a mix of one- and two-bedroom apartments and three-storey town houses with two or three bedrooms.
- The sergeant has come instead for a blacksmith who can promptly mend the broken cuffs so that they can be put to use this afternoon in the hunt for two escaped convicts.
- The three brothers became the blacksmiths of the Olympian gods, creating Zeus' thunderbolts, Poseidon's trident.
- The boffins also came to the conclusion that the armour was made in a low temperature bush fire and not in a blacksmith's forge as originally thought.
- In country towns with a population of just a thousand there was likely to be a saddler, blacksmith, coach or implement maker, and grain and fodder merchant, all dependent on the district's horses.