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- noun The
smithy of ablacksmith .
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Examples
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In addition to the ordinary blacksmithy, which is a necessity, the modern tendency has been to elaborate the shops on mines to cover machine-work, pattern-making and foundry-work, in order that delays may be minimized by quick repairs.
Principles of Mining Valuation, Organization and Administration Herbert Hoover 1919
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In the stores the people could be watched at work of all kinds, from blacksmithy to finest filigree silver work inlaid with the tiny colored feathers of the brightly colored kingfisher; and from rough carpenter work to the finest ivory carving for which the Chinese are famous.
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The College at Woodstock has courses in carpentry, wood-turning, wood-carving, pattern-making, blacksmithy forging and mechanical work.
Technical Education 1906
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Time to put the acting profession back on the status it had during the middle ages up to the 18th Century--pariahs--people who couldn't work at a decent job, were too lazy to farm, build or blacksmithy!
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Police teams also questioned the jail inmates who shared barrack with Pawar and also those who worked with him at the blacksmithy section.
Top Headlines 2010
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For example, blacksmithy can reach levels of specialization for those who devote their lives to the craft to rival any machine's fabrication.
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Full-on blacksmithy is probably beyond my reach, but I'll be making and trying a Someday I will have a place where I can set up a homemade cupola furnace.
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Full-on blacksmithy is probably beyond my reach, but I'll be making and trying a Someday I will have a place where I can set up a homemade cupola furnace.
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A 'blacksmithy-look' associated with Olde England inspires a contingent of whorish doms and blatant metalheads.
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