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  • noun Plural form of stithy.

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Examples

  • But I tired of ringing hammer-tunes on iron stithies, and went out into the world, where I became acquainted with a celebrated juggler, whose fingers had become rather too stiff for legerdemain, and who wished to have the aid of an apprentice in his noble mystery.

    Kenilworth 2004

  • The region of the stithies is passed, the little hammers are heard.

    The Wagnerian Romances Gertrude Hall Brownell 1912

  • Lights began to glitter now in the cots of the thralls, and brighter still in the stithies where already you might hear the hammers clinking on the anvils, as men fell to looking to their battle gear.

    The House of the Wolfings William Morris 1865

  • But I tired of ringing hammer-tunes on iron stithies, and went out into the world, where I became acquainted with a celebrated juggler, whose fingers had become rather too stiff for legerdemain, and who wished to have the aid of an apprentice in his noble mystery.

    Kenilworth Walter Scott 1801

  • Compared to all others, it is a paradise beside the stithies of Lucifer! "

    The Wandering Jew — Volume 02 Eug��ne Sue 1830

  • Compared to all others, it is a paradise beside the stithies of Lucifer! "

    The Wandering Jew — Complete Eug��ne Sue 1830

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