Blacksmith

Definitions

1. A person who forges iron.
2. A surname originating as an occupation.
3. A person who shoes horses.
   informal
4. A blackish fish of the Pacific coast (Chromis punctipinnis).

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Examples

“The blacksmith may forge what Religion he pleases.”

“Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury⟳, and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out.[…]. Ikey the blacksmith had forged us a spearhead after a sketch⟳ from a picture of a Greek warrior; and a rake-handle served as a shaft.”

“Close⟳ to the hump-backed bridge on the lane leading into the Hambleden Valley is a mid-19th-century smithy, its inside walls hung with tools of the blacksmith's trade⟳, though decorative wrought-ironwork is now the main product from its glowing forge.”

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