blacksmith

[blak-smith] Origin

black·smith

[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.

Origin:
1250–1300; Middle English; see black (in reference to iron or black metal), smith1; compare whitesmith
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blacksmith (ˈblækˌsmɪθ)
 
n
an artisan who works iron with a furnace, anvil, hammer, etc
 
[C14: see black, smith]

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blacksmith
late 15c., from black + smith. Listed in royal ordinance (along with bladesmiths, spurriers and goldbeaters). Those who work in heated, heavy metals as opposed to those who beat gold, tin, or pewter (whitesmith).
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blacksmith

craftsman who fabricates objects out of iron by hot and cold forging on an anvil. Blacksmiths who specialized in the forging of shoes for horses were called farriers. The term blacksmith derives from iron, formerly called "black metal," and farrier from the Latin ferrum, "iron."

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