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BLACKSMITH
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A smith who forges and shapes iron with a hammer and anvil
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("blacksmith" is a kind of...):
metalworker; smith (someone who works metal (especially by hammering it when it is hot and malleable))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "blacksmith"):
farrier; horseshoer (a person who shoes horses)
Context examples:
"But no matter how peculiarly constituted a man may be for blacksmithing," she was laughing, "I never heard of one becoming a blacksmith without first serving his apprenticeship."
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
But the whole effect is spoiled when I look at them—at Tetralani, five feet ten in her stocking feet and weighing a hundred and ninety pounds, and at Barillo, a scant five feet four, greasy-featured, with the chest of a squat, undersized blacksmith, and at the pair of them, attitudinizing, clasping their breasts, flinging their arms in the air like demented creatures in an asylum; and when I am expected to accept all this as the faithful illusion of a love-scene between a slender and beautiful princess and a handsome, romantic, young prince—why, I can't accept it, that's all.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
