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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. One that forges and shapes iron with an anvil and hammer.
  2. n. One that makes, repairs, and fits horseshoes.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A smith who works in iron and makes iron utensils; an ironsmith; especially, in the United States, one who makes horseshoes and shoes horses.
  2. n. [A translation of a native name.] In ornithology, a name of the bare-necked bell-bird of Brazil, Chasmorhynchus nudicollis.
  3. n. In ichthyology, a pomacentroid fish, Chromis punctipinnis, having conical teeth in two or more rows in each jaw, a blackish color with violet luster above relieved by greenish edgings of some of the scales, and bluish-black fins with small brown spots. It is not uncommon along the southern coast of California.
  4. To follow the trade of a blacksmith; work as a blacksmith.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A person who forges iron.
  2. n. informal A person who shoes horses; a farrier.
  3. n. A blackish fish of the Pacific coast (Chromis or Heliastes punctipinnis).

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A smith who works in iron with a forge, and makes iron utensils, horseshoes, etc.
  2. n. (Zoöl.) A fish of the Pacific coast (Chromis punctipinnis, or Heliastes punctipinnis), of a blackish color.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a smith who forges and shapes iron with a hammer and anvil

Etymologies

  1. black (“color of iron”) +‎ smith (“related to smite”) (Wiktionary)
  2. From the color of iron. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “This piece of wit incensed my friend to such a degree, that he called the blacksmith scoundrel, and protested he would fight him for half-a-farthing.”

    The Adventures of Roderick Random

  • “However there proved to be one or two people within call – the gamekeeper who lived at the lodge inhabited by Lord John, and the blacksmith from the clachan, who had been carrying some implement home to a distant mountain farm.”

    Kirsteen: The Story of a Scotch Family Seventy Years Ago

  • “But now, as Charles Merchant repeated the words, "blacksmith" --”

    Way of the Lawless

  • “The blacksmith was an enormous redhead named Tadhg, and he was beside himself with excitement when he learned Rose was a healer.”

    Simon & Schuster: My Devilish Scotsman

  • ““Mountain of the Maker,” the artificer par excellence, that is, the blacksmith: it is so called from a legendary shoer of horses and mules, who lived there possibly in the days before”

    The Land of Midian

  • ““Barnes the blacksmith is the biggest and strongest man for forty miles round,” said the clergyman sternly.”

    The Complete Father Brown

  • “There only remained the blacksmith's shop, and though the blacksmith was a Puritan and none of his people, Wilfred Bohun had heard some scandals about a beautiful and rather celebrated wife.”

    The Father Brown Omnibus

  • “Barnes the blacksmith is the biggest and strongest man for forty miles round," said the clergyman sternly.”

    The Father Brown Omnibus

  • “The blacksmith was a large man with a heavy black beard that was so long, he had to tuck it into his overalls while working his forge.”

    Simon & Schuster: Streets of Laredo

  • “Why, it was enough to make you laugh, to know the blacksmith was her friend this time.”

    Seventh Son

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hypernyms (3)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. metalworker
  1. smith
  1. smithy

hyponyms (2)

Words that are more specific

  1. farrier
  1. horseshoer

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Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. carpenter
  2. smith
  3. shoemaker
  4. baker
  5. mason
  6. tailor
  1. weaver
  2. cooper
  3. plumber
  4. butcher
  5. goldsmith
  6. craftsman
  1. miller
  2. barber
  3. joiner
  4. smithy
  5. grocer
  6. gardener
  1. machinist
  2. mechanic
  3. workman
  4. cobbler
  5. shopkeeper
  6. armorer
  1. schoolmaster
  2. farrier
  3. whitesmith
  4. silversmith
  5. platinumsmith
  6. forge

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Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. farrier
  2. blacksmith
  3. smith
  4. ironsmith
  5. hardy
  6. get
  1. hardy-hole
  2. shoer
  3. sleck-trough
  4. angle-smith
  5. clench-cutter
  6. artificer
  1. battering-ram
  2. breakstaff
  3. burnewin
  4. colt-ale
  5. forge-water
  6. hammerman
  1. fuller
  2. smithy
  3. portable forge
  4. hearth
  5. art
  6. slake trough
  1. striker
  2. tue-irons
  3. cinder
  4. fire
  5. heat
  6. helper
  1. maiden
  2. occupation
  3. hood
  4. tool-smith

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