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

Manon and two other survivors married blacksmiths, and those farriers’ hands, hands strong enough to pound metal for hours on end, proved essential to carving homes out of canebrake.

From Time

This intense fever weakens those metallic bonds, allowing the blacksmith to hammer the metal into shape.

From Science News For Students

To forge an iron sword, a blacksmith must reposition bajillions of iron atoms.

From Science News For Students

You learn through trial and error how to best command your troops and when you can take your eyes off them for a few seconds to order your blacksmith to make better swords or to make a new lumber facility.

From Washington Post

The site overlooks a pond and includes a sawmill, wheelwright and blacksmith shop, along with a two-story house.

From Washington Post

When her opponents chose a blacksmith as their champion, she produced the same type of defender.

From The Daily Beast

When Ahmadinejad family's moved to Tehran from Aradan, his father, Ahmad, started a new career as a blacksmith.

From The Daily Beast

And for the inescapably materialistic aspirations of that blacksmith, DuBois did not have much regard.

From The Daily Beast

New "plans" for special items that I can have the blacksmith make.

From The Daily Beast

Despite this all-important class difference, Beatriz married the blacksmith.

From The Daily Beast

I shall make it my business to accomplish that fact even though, at present, he thinks a country blacksmith beneath his notice.

From Project Gutenberg

A giant of a fellow with an eye like a hawk and a big black beard that seems, somehow, to suggest a blacksmith.

From Project Gutenberg

Fetching pen and paper, the blacksmith made a rapid computation of what would be due Oliver at any time within the next month.

From Project Gutenberg

A few minutes after the blacksmith left me, I heard the hammer sounding upon the anvil in one of the caverns below.

From Project Gutenberg

Is he like Duclosse the mealman, or Lajeunesse the blacksmith, or Garotte the lime-burner-and the rest?

From Project Gutenberg