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Definition of "smithy" [smith•y]

  • A blacksmith's shop; a forge. Also called smithery. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "smithy" in a sentence
  • "When completed, the smithy was a low building of einderblock, sheet-rock, corrugated metal, and so on, plunked down in the middle of sage, paintbrush, Apache plume, and so on."
  • "The smithy was a three-sided shed, the forge in the middle, the anvil toward the front."
  • "The house and the smithy were the first structures Justen had seen within the great forest that were not grown by some tree or another."