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smiddy

Smithy \Smith"y\ (-[y^]), n. [AS. smi[eth][eth]e, fr. smi[eth]; akin to D. smidse, smids, OHG. smitta, G. schmiede, Icel. smi[eth]ja. See Smith, n.] The workshop of a smith, esp. a blacksmith; a smithery; a stithy. [Written also smiddy.]

Under a spreading chestnut tree The village smithy stands.
--Longfellow.

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smiddy

n. (context Scotland Northern England English) (alternative form of smithy English)

Usage examples of "smiddy".

Uhl and Smiddy walked slowly across the grubby lawn and climbed three steps to the ramshackle veranda.

He said something to Smiddy and Smiddy left the veranda and went around to the rear.

He telephoned from a pretentious filling station and then came back, told Smiddy to keep to Route 40.

Freddy from the floor, and, finding him still alive, clapped his cap on his bleeding head, and shoved him out of the smiddy, with an inward prayer that he might survive till he got home.

On Sunday morning I went to the smiddy that used to be a mile up the road here to get some keys I had ordered, and I was coming back along the frontage with the keys in my hand, and when I struck the river about half-a-mile above here the first thing that caught my eye was a canoe, with a couple of oars in it, sailing along on its own account.

England, was passed, while not at Buckingham Palace, or elsewhere, in the smiddy of a somewhat blockish blacksmith, who has been unfortunate in business, and with whom Dawson discovered an infinite fund of fellow-feeling.

Highsmith ordered a whisky neat and Richard Smiddy ordered tea and cakes.