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  • He does the work himself, including all the blacksmithery and most of the pitchfork management.

    Angry Lead Skies Cook, Glen 2002

  • When finished, we first placed our blacksmith's shop upon it, that is to say, our anvil, and large vice, and other valuable articles belonging to blacksmithery, bar-iron, and steel traps, and alas!

    John B. Wyeth's Oregon, or a Short History of a Long Journey John Bound 1833

  • I might suggest that, despite the enthusiasm of both writers and critics alike, on various weblogs such as this one, most poetry has all but forfeited its status as an artform at the forefront of innovative expression; instead, poetry has allowed itself to devolve into a quaint subset of artisanal practices, like blacksmithery or cabinetmaking, which do little more than preserve an antiquary skill, long since relegated to an exhibit at your nearest Pioneer Village ….

    Writing and Failure (Part 1) : Christian Bök : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007

  • Fire -- General remarks; to obtain fire from the sun (burning-glasses, reflectors); by conversion of motion into heat (flint and steel, guns, lucifers, fire-sticks); by chemical means (spontaneous combustion); tinder; tinder-boxes; fuel; small fuel for lighting the fire; to kindle a spark into a flame; camp fires Burning down trees; hollows in wood; fire-beacons; prairie on fire; first obliterate cache marks; leave an enduring mark; heating power of fuels; blacksmithery; wet clothes, to dry; tent, to warm; incombustible stuffs (see "Brands").

    The Art of Travel Shifts and Contrivances Available in Wild Countries Francis Galton 1866

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