BLACKSMITH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does blacksmith mean? 

• BLACKSMITH (noun)
  The noun BLACKSMITH has 1 sense:

1. a smith who forges and shapes iron with a hammer and anvil

  Familiarity information: BLACKSMITH used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BLACKSMITH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A smith who forges and shapes iron with a hammer and anvil

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("blacksmith" is a kind of...):

metalworker; smith (someone who works metal (especially by hammering it when it is hot and malleable))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "blacksmith"):

farrier; horseshoer (a person who shoes horses)

 Context examples 

The farmyard must be cleared away entirely, and planted up to shut out the blacksmith's shop.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

As every one knew, she was keeping company with John Collins, the blacksmith, and, as Maria knew privily, Miss Flanagan and Mr. Collins were going next day to Golden Gate Park.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

They hurled their relics after him, and so rode back to the blacksmith's the poorer both in pocket and in faith.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Your eyes dwell on a Vulcan,—a real blacksmith, brown, broad-shouldered: and blind and lame into the bargain.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Jim Harrison seems to be a most respectable young fellow, but after all he is a blacksmith’s apprentice, and a candidate for the prize-ring.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The blacksmith hammer which I took in the carriage from Veresti was useful; though the doors were all open I broke them off the rusty hinges, lest some ill-intent or ill-chance should close them, so that being entered I might not get out.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Last week he hurled the local blacksmith over a parapet into a stream, and it was only by paying over all the money which I could gather together that I was able to avert another public exposure.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

You couldn't hope to be a blacksmith without spending three years at learning the trade—or is it five years!

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Harrison was the Friar’s Oak blacksmith, and he had his nickname because he fought Tom Johnson when he held the English belt, and would most certainly have beaten him had the Bedfordshire magistrates not appeared to break up the fight.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Now writers are so much better paid than blacksmiths that there must be ever so many more men who would like to write, who—try to write.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)