smithy

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a workshop where a smith heats, shapes, and repairs metal; a forge

   Sparks flew from the smithy as the blacksmith hammered the iron bar.

From Middle English smythy, borrowed from Old Norse smiðja, 'a smith's workshop,' from the same Germanic family as smith. It is cognate with an obsolete Old English-derived form, smithe.

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