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smithy
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"workshop of a smith," c.1300, from Old Norse smiðja (cognate with Old English smiððe), from Proto-Germanic *smith-ja-, from PIE smi- (see smith (n.)).
Wiktionary
n. The location where a smith (particularly a blacksmith) works, a forge. vb. (context uncommon English) to forge, especially by hand
WordNet
n. a workplace where metal is worked by heating and hammering [syn: forge]
Wikipedia
Smithy may refer to:
- Forge, also called a smithy, the workplace of a smith or a blacksmith
- Smithy (1924 film), a silent American film starring Stan Laurel
- Smithy (1946 film), an Australian film based on Sir Charles Kingsford Smith's flight across the Pacific Ocean
- Smithy (Mario), the main villain of the video game Super Mario RPG
Smithy is also a documented nickname for a number of notable people and fictional characters:
- Sir Charles Kingsford Smith (1897–1935), Australian pioneer aviator
- Ian Smith (1919–2007), Prime Minister of Rhodesia and World War II Royal Air Force pilot
- W. G. G. Duncan Smith (1914–1996), World War II flying ace
- Mike Smith (television presenter) (1955–2014), British television and radio presenter, racing driver, pilot and businessman
- Dale Smith (The Bill), a fictional character on the TV series The Bill
- Neil "Smithy" Smith, fictional character on the TV series Gavin & Stacey played by actor James Corden
Smithy is a 1946 Australian film about pioneering Australian aviator Sir Charles Kingsford Smith and his flight across the Pacific Ocean, from San Francisco, California, United States to Brisbane, Queensland, Australia during 1928. This was the first-ever trans-Pacific flight. Kingsford Smith was the pilot of the Fokker F.VII/3m three-engine monoplane " Southern Cross", with Australian aviator Charles Ulm as the relief pilot. The other two crew members were Americans James Warner and Harry Lyon.
The film was released in the UK as The Southern Cross and in the US as Pacific Adventure.
Smithy is a 1924 American silent film starring Stan Laurel.
Usage examples of "smithy".
He lifts the adz again, wondering why Tullar delivers charcoal in such large chunks, and why the smithy bums so much-but he knows the second reason.
The succulent aroma of barbecuing pork wafted through the chill spring air, and fragrant clouds of hickory smoke rose from the fires near the smithy, where haunches of venison, sides of mutton, and broiled fowl in their dozens turned on spits.
The smithy had not been quite so broad across the chest as Killian, forcing him to leave the simple garment unfastened across his throat.
I was at the smithy, settling an argument for two of the minor lords of the Dalriada regarding repairs to their war-chariots-a new linch pin and wheel-rims-and took no notice of the horns that morning, until Joscelin appeared and caught at my arm.
Nylan lowered the hammer, then raised it again and kept cutting until the new guard actually entered the smithy.
The largest, on the other hand, the platforms of slave exhibition and the great sales pavilion, lie to your left, two pasangs away, beyond the smithies and the chain shops.
At the top of the long, steep hill they had to climb from the smithy hollow to where the Robertson road joined the Wahine road, they paused for a moment, panting, the five bright heads haloed against a puffily clouded sky.
The two walk into the smithy, where Rek is using the small anvil to forge nails.
Whether the swaging is harder or the mental concentration to avoid suffusing the raw metal with order is more difficult, he is not sure, only that he is sweating from more than the heat of the smithy when he is through.
ACnowidctlparThird Miranornowidctlparthe way home from the smithy, Paulus Thwait turned as he always did into the street where he lived.
Orderly rows of their big butterfly sleeping tents, and among them supply sheds, horse pens, armory and smithy and cooking tents, sties and folds for the pigs and sheep they brought along to eat, all the ordinary appurtenances of military camps.
Hearing Bouzes laud the metalworking skills of his troops, which could finally be put to full use by virtue of the extraordinarily well-equipped smithy located in the rear of the imperial compound, Baresmanas expressed a desire to observe the soldiers at their work.
He carried Brewster into the smithy and prepared a straw bed, well away from the forge, just to be on the safe side.
She followed the pack-horse road beyond the lonnin that turned up to Shoulthwaite, and stopped at the gate of the cottage that stood by the smithy near the bridge.
Bacchus in long robes and with solemnity blessing the vine, Silenus and the hobbling smith who smithied the Serpe, the Holy Vineyard Knife in heaven, all these by their diction and their flavour recall the Autumn in Herault and the grapes under a pure sky, pale at the horizon, and labourers and their carts in the vineyard, and these set in the frame of that great time when Saturn did return.