smithy

noun

ˈsmi-thē How to pronounce smithy (audio)
 also  -t͟hē
plural smithies
1
: the workshop of a smith
2

Examples of smithy in a Sentence

They tore down the old smithy behind the general store.
Recent Examples on the Web The smithy isn’t the first significant find unearthed at Wittenham Clumps. Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Feb. 2024 But Washington’s fiction is much less concerned with the heartache and devastation commonly caused by such departures and much more obsessed with how absence and exodus create a smithy in which new selves can be forged. Ernesto Mestre-Reed, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2023 As an apologist, Wright suggests, less persuasively, that the Jewish stories have a special virtue for having been forged in the smithy of suffering. Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2023 Things to Do in Gretna, Louisiana Gretna Green Blacksmith Shop This old-timey blacksmith shop is based on a historic Scottish smithy of the same name located in Gretna Green, Scotland. Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 23 Mar. 2023 James Joyce’s Stephen Dedalus promised to forge in the smithy of his soul the uncreated conscience of his race; less Parnassian than Dedalus but just as angry as Joyce, O’Toole tells the story of how his race, at last breaking the fetters of religion and superstition, created its own conscience. James Wood, The New Yorker, 4 Apr. 2022 There was nothing smithish about the old smithy. Elizabeth McCracken, Harpers Magazine, 5 Jan. 2021 Actually, the story’s already pretty strange by the time our medieval heroine, a girl with a bird — specifically, and significantly, a curlew — on her shoulder and a smithy’s tools in hand, mysteriously appears in our present-day heroine’s house. Washington Post, 4 May 2022 The transformation, complete with an iron smithy converted from an old wood barn, was uncanny, as if the crew had conveniently stumbled upon a portal to the 19th century. New York Times, 6 May 2021

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Word History

First Known Use

13th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1

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The first known use of smithy was in the 13th century

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“Smithy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/smithy. Accessed 19 Mar. 2024.

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smithy

noun
ˈsmith-ē How to pronounce smithy (audio)
 also  ˈsmit͟h-
plural smithies
1
: the workshop of a smith
2

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