Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun One that forges and shapes iron with an anvil and hammer.
  • noun One that makes, repairs, and fits horseshoes.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To follow the trade of a blacksmith; work as a blacksmith.
  • noun A smith who works in iron and makes iron utensils; an ironsmith; especially, in the United States, one who makes horseshoes and shoes horses.
  • noun [A translation of a native name.] In ornithology, a name of the bare-necked bell-bird of Brazil, Chasmorhynchus nudicollis.
  • noun 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.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

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

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

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

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a smith who forges and shapes iron with a hammer and anvil

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[From the color of iron.]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

black (“color of iron”) +‎ smith (“related to smite”)

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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 2004

  • 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 Margaret 1891

  • 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 Tobias George Smollett 1746

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

    Way of the Lawless Max Brand 1918

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

    My Devilish Scotsman Jen Holling 2005

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

    The Complete Father Brown 2003

  • 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 Chesterton, G. K. 2003

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

    The Father Brown Omnibus Chesterton, G. K. 2003

  • “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 2003

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

    The Complete Father Brown 2003

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