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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A metalworker, especially one who works metal when it is hot and malleable. Often used in combination: a silversmith; a goldsmith.
  2. n. A blacksmith.
  3. n. One who makes or works at something specified. Often used in combination: a locksmith; a wordsmith.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. An artificer; especially, a worker with the hammer and in metal: as, a goldsmith, a silversmith; specifically (and now generally), a worker in iron. See blacksmith, 1.
  2. n. One who makes or effects anything.
  3. To fashion, as metal; especially, to fashion with the hammer: at the present time most commonly applied to ironwork.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A craftsperson who works metal into desired forms using a hammer and other tools, sometimes heating the metal to make it more workable, especially a blacksmith.
  2. n. archaic An artist.
  3. v. To forge, to form, usually on an anvil; by heating and pounding.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. One who forges with the hammer; one who works in metals.
  2. n. rare One who makes or effects anything.
  3. v. obsolete To beat into shape; to forge.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. United States singer noted for her rendition of patriotic songs (1909-1986)
  2. n. English explorer who helped found the colony at Jamestown, Virginia; was said to have been saved by Pocahontas (1580-1631)
  3. n. United States sculptor (1906-1965)
  4. n. United States suffragist who refused to pay taxes until she could vote (1792-1886)
  5. n. Rhodesian statesman who declared independence of Zimbabwe from Great Britain (born in 1919)
  6. n. United States blues singer (1894-1937)
  7. n. someone who works metal (especially by hammering it when it is hot and malleable)
  8. n. someone who works at something specified
  9. n. religious leader who founded the Mormon Church in 1830 (1805-1844)
  10. n. Scottish economist who advocated private enterprise and free trade (1723-1790)

Etymologies

  1. From Middle English smithen ("To work metal, forge, beat into, torment, refine (of God - to refine his chosen); create, to work as a blacksmith"), from Old English smiþian ("to forge, fabricate"). Compare Dutch smeden, German schmieden, from Proto-Germanic *smiþōnan. (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English, from Old English. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • lampbane The surname of two of the Doctor's companions on Doctor Who: Sarah Jane Smith and Mickey Smith. Sep 8, 2008

  • chained_bear Worker responsible for the forging and repair of domestic and military ironwork. Aug 26, 2008

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