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black⋅smith

  [blak-smith]
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–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; ME; see black (in reference to iron or black metal), smith1 ; cf. whitesmith
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black·smith   (blāk'smĭth')   
n.  

  1. One that forges and shapes iron with an anvil and hammer.

  2. One that makes, repairs, and fits horseshoes.


[From the color of iron.]
black'smith'ing n.
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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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