blacksmith
blacksmith Lexical Profile
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• noun
A craftsperson who creates and repairs objects made of wrought iron or steel by heating the metal in a forge and shaping it with hand tools upon an anvil.
"The village blacksmith spent the afternoon hammering glowing iron bars into decorative garden gates."
A small, dark bluish-gray marine damselfish (Chromis punctipinnis) native to the coastal kelp forests and rocky reefs of the eastern Pacific Ocean.
"Divers off the coast of California often swim through large schools of blacksmiths hovering near the kelp beds."
• verb
To work as a blacksmith or forge iron and steel objects using heat and an anvil.
"He learned to blacksmith at an early age from his grandfather in a rural workshop."
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Word Origin & Etymology
Formed in Middle English as a compound of 'black' and 'smith', referring to a worker in 'black metal' (iron or steel) as opposed to a 'whitesmith', who worked with pale metals like tin or pewter.
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