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smithy
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synonyms: stithy ???
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Definition:
photo: By Jeff Kubina from Columbia, Maryland , CC BY-SA 2.0,The workshop of a smith, esp. a blacksmith; a smithery; a stithy. [Written also smiddy.]Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)gratuitious sound file: by Emmaproductions, CC0, https://freesound.org/people/Emmaproductions/sounds/254370/
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In the middle of the close, well away from other buildings, stood the smithy, the glow of its fire visible through the open doorway; and the clang of hammer on anvil carried across the close as the smith made new tools to replace the ones the masons were wearing down.
Ken Follett. The Pillars of the Earth, p.45 (1990)
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“You remember when your father came on us down by the spring, and made us go wi’ him to the smithy to see how to fix a wagon-tree?”
Diana Gabaldon. Outlander (1991)
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I am going out for a ride in the saddle. I mean to explore those marshes for amusement. Out-of-the-way villages there, they tell me. Curious little public-houses—and smithies—and that.
Charles Dickens. Great Expectations (1861)
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