smithy
noun
- workshops of a blacksmith, who is an ironsmith who makes iron into tools or other objects
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ˈsmɪði/ / /ˈsmɪθi/
name
Etymology: From Smith + -y.
- A nickname of the surname Smith.
noun
Etymology: From Middle English smythy, from Old Norse smiðja, from Proto-Germanic *smiþjǭ. Cognate with Old English smiþþe (whence the obsolete modern doublet smithe, smythe (“the workshop of a smith, forge”)). See the Proto-Germanic entry for further cognates. Partially displaced by English forge.
- The location where a smith (particularly a blacksmith) works; a forge.
“Traditionally a village smithy was a busy place because the smith's work was so necessary.”
“The workshop with its smithy is still intact, also the loading stage where the narrow-gauge wagons tipped their contents into those of the G.W.R.”
verb
Etymology: From Middle English smythy, from Old Norse smiðja, from Proto-Germanic *smiþjǭ. Cognate with Old English smiþþe (whence the obsolete modern doublet smithe, smythe (“the workshop of a smith, forge”)). See the Proto-Germanic entry for further cognates. Partially displaced by English forge.
- To forge (metal), especially by traditional blacksmith methods.
“"That's funny looking mail, Sire," said Eustace. "Aye, lad," said Tirian. "No Narnian dwarf smithied that. […]”
“So the old smith went out to his smithy and weighed out iron enough to make a stout staff a stone weight, and he smithied it well while his son looked on. […] So they weighed six stone of iron and smithied a great bent club like a shinny, and when that was made and cooled the smith's son said, "that will do."”