smith

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A craftsperson who works metal into desired forms using a hammer and other tools, sometimes heating the metal to make it more workable, especially a blacksmith.

   The smiths themselves were a grand lot of fellows, full of a robust, and sometimes Rabelaisian sense of humour, and between "heats," they could be most entertaining.

2. 2
   verb

   To forge, to form, usually on an anvil; by heating and pounding.

   Sigurd took the very best sword That the Dwarfs had ever smithed.

3. 3
   name

   An English surname originating as an occupation (the most common in Britain, the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand).

   Patingham selmonger, who, as it was reported, reneuced the Arians opinion before he dyed. The xvi. daye were burned [at the stake], at Staines. Robert Smith[,] painter, who in the tyme of his imprisonment, wrate byuers thinges in Metre, which were after put in print. At Stortford Stephan Harwoode Alebruer. And at Ware Thomas Fuſſe Jerkenmaker.

4. 4
   noun

   someone who works metal (especially by hammering it when it is hot and malleable)

5. 5
   noun

   someone who works at something specified

6. 6
   noun

   One who makes anything; wright.

7. 7
   noun

   An artist.

8. 8
   name

   A male given name transferred from the surname.

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *smiþaz Proto-West Germanic *smiþ Old English smiþ Middle English smyth English smith From Middle English smyth, smith, from Old English smiþ, from Proto-West Germanic *smiþ, from Proto-Germanic *smiþaz, from Proto-Indo-European *smēy-, *smī- (“to cut, hew”). Cognate with Dutch smid, German Schmied, German Low German Smitt, Danish smed, Faroese smiður, Icelandic smiður, Norwegian Bokmål smed, Norwegian Nynorsk smed, Swedish smed, Yiddish שמיד (shmid).