Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The work of a smith; work in metals.

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  • noun The work done by a smith (blacksmith); metal forgery

Etymologies

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smith +‎ work

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Examples

  • Lord Cross is a lot like the other men when it comes to smithwork.

    Hellgate London Covenant Mel Odom 2008

  • Thereon embossed in excellent smithwork was seen the image of a queen of regal port, scion of the house of Brunswick, Victoria her name, Her Most

    Ulysses 2003

  • I never used my Maker's knack in any of my smithwork, not since I got strong enough to do it with my own strength and skill, so don't smirk at me like I'm just a trickster, and no real smith.

    Prentice Alvin Card, Orson Scott 1989

  • Not till Makepeace was convinced Alvin had used hidden knackery to do his smithwork, not till now did Makepeace ever let Alvin know that he was, in fact, a good smith.

    Prentice Alvin Card, Orson Scott 1989

  • Alberich enters driving before him with his scourge a whole army of little huddling, hurrying Nibelungs, groaning under the weight of great pieces of gold and silver smithwork, which, while he threatens and urges them, they heap in a duskily glimmering mound.

    The Wagnerian Romances Gertrude Hall Brownell 1912

  • Thereon embossed in excellent smithwork was seen the image of a queen of regal port, scion of the house of Brunswick,

    Ulysses James Joyce 1911

  • There was a day-book kept in the shop, in which the overseer usually charged the smithwork we did for the neighbours.

    The Fugitive Blacksmith Pennington, James W C 1849

  • There was a day-book kept in the shop, in which the overseer usually charged the smithwork we did for the neighbours.

    The Fugitive Blacksmith; or, Events in the History of James W. C. Pennington, Pastor of a Presbyterian Church, New York, Formerly a Slave in the State of Maryland, United States 1849

  • There was a day-book kept in the shop, in which the overseer usually charged the smithwork we did for the neighbours.

    The Fugitive Blacksmith or, Events in the History of James W. C. Pennington James W. C. Pennington 1839

  • Well-deservedly, as still appears; for their taxings and extortions of malt, of herring, of meal, smithwork and every article taxable in Norway, were extreme; and their service to the country otherwise nearly imperceptible.

    Early Kings of Norway Thomas Carlyle 1838

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