What is "blacksmithing"

Usage examples of "blacksmithing".

He had meant to start teaching Sonny blacksmithing, but during the evening Lillian and Anna had decided to try teaching Mom a nonphonetic, ideographic, alphabet, and in the morning they co-opted Sonny to help.

The greatest source of power available at the time - water power - was aggressively developed, and employed to do ever more kinds of work: not only grinding grain but fulling cloth, blacksmithing, beer mashing, woodworking, mixing mortar and cement, papermaking, rope making, oil pressing, preparing dyes for cloth, and powering bellows to heat blast furnaces for steel.

The boy was also expected to handle any blacksmithing tasks that might crop up and help Etta around the camp.

I had engaged briefly in the study of blacksmithing, but wasted so much time trying to fix the bellows so that it would blow itself, that the master turned me adrift in disgrace, and told me I would come to no good.

The shoemaking and mending, the blacksmithing, cartwrighting, coopering, weaving, and grain-grind ing, were all performed by the slaves on the home plantation.

Yes, the proprietor liked automobiles, clearly the wave of the future and no more blacksmithing for him.