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blacksmith

[blak-smith]

noun

  1. a person who makes horseshoes and shoes horses.

  2. a person who forges objects of iron.

  3. a blackish damselfish, Chromis punctipinnis, inhabiting coastal waters off southern California.



blacksmith

/ ˈæˌɪθ /

noun

  1. an artisan who works iron with a furnace, anvil, hammer, etc

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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of blacksmith1

1250–1300; Middle English; black (in reference to iron or black metal), smith ( def. ); whitesmith
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of blacksmith1

C14: see black , smith
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Episodes from the first half of the 1960s, which often featured a young Burt Reynolds as a half-Comanche blacksmith in Dodge City, play like allegories about racism as the civil rights movement was simmering.

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Les Capon, project manager with AOC Archaeology, said he believed part of the area could have been a blacksmith's workshop after discovering evidence of a forge and an anvil.

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The North York Moors Ranger Service said it had worked with a blacksmith to create the viewing platform overlooking the landmark.

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The sequel follows the story of Tom's character Henry of Skalitz, a blacksmith's son turned knight, and Luke's character, the impulsive Sir Hans Capon.

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He said some names were based on a person's trade, such as a blacksmith, while others were clever word play.

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