Noun: smithy
| Singular | smithy |
| Plural | smithies |
Sample Sentences
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Traditionally a village smithy was a busy place because the smith's work was so necessary.
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The workshop with its smithy is still intact, also the loading stage where the narrow-gauge wagons tipped their contents into those of the G.W.R. [1941 June, “Notes and News: The Derelict Glyn Valley Tramway”, in Railway Magazine, page 278:]
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Close to the hump-backed bridge on the lane leading into the Hambleden Valley is a mid-19th-century smithy, its inside walls hung with tools of the blacksmith's trade, though decorative wrought-ironwork is now the main product from its glowing forge. [1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 214, about Hambleden:]
Nouns inflected like smithy
clitoridectomy,
royal jelly,
whoopsy,
surrogacy,
urinary,
rastrography,
renoscopy,
sourtop blueberry,
forcible entry,
superficiary,
lipidosity,
potability,
phonography,
hyperproperty,
greenery,
conjugality,
ring singularity,
Brittany,
ignobility,
obscurity, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English smythy, from Old Norse smiðja, from Proto-Germanic *smiþjǭ. Cognate with Old English smiþþe (whence the obsolete modern doublet smithe, smythe (“the workshop of a smith, forge”)). See the Proto-Germanic entry for further cognates. Partially displaced by English forge. See: Middle English Nouns '
smythy', Old Norse Nouns '
smiðja', Old English Nouns '
smiþþe'.
Verbs referencing "smithy"
German Nouns
Schmiede, Old English Nouns
smiþþe.