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SMITHY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A workplace where metal is worked by heating and hammering
Synonyms:
forge; smithy
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("smithy" is a kind of...):
work; workplace (a place where work is done)
Meronyms (parts of "smithy"):
anvil (a heavy block of iron or steel on which hot metals are shaped by hammering)
drop forge; drop hammer; drop press (device for making large forgings)
Context examples:
“You’re welcome to all you can find out in my smithy,” said he.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He was two years my elder, however, so that, long before I had finished my schooling, he had gone to help his uncle at the smithy.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
It was at Allen’s school that I first knew Jim Harrison, Boy Jim as he has always been called, the nephew of Champion Harrison of the village smithy.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Poor Jim turned away with a clouded brow and strode into the smithy again.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
So that was all we could draw from him; but, young as I was, I had heard of coast smuggling and of packages carried to lonely places at night, so that from that time on, if I had heard that the preventives had made a capture, I was never easy until I saw the jolly face of Champion Harrison looking out of his smithy door.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
When such a book came into his hands, Friar’s Oak and the smithy became a dream to him, and his life was spent out upon the ocean or wandering over the broad continents with his heroes.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
In our own village, I can assure you that we were very proud of the presence of such a man as Champion Harrison, and if folks stayed at the inn, they would walk down as far as the smithy just to have the sight of him.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The Harrisons were waving to me from the smithy, and John Cummings from the steps of the inn, and I saw Joshua Allen, my old schoolmaster, pointing me out to the people, as if he were showing what came from his teaching.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
You may think how proud I was to walk down the village street with my magnificent relative, and to note out of the corner of my eye how the folk came to the doors and windows to see us pass. Champion Harrison was standing outside the smithy, and he pulled his cap off when he saw my uncle.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He could suit himself to his company, too, for on the one hand he could take his wine with the vicar, or with Sir James Ovington, the squire of the parish; while on the other he would sit by the hour amongst my humble friends down in the smithy, with Champion Harrison, Boy Jim, and the rest of them, telling them such stories of Nelson and his men that I have seen the Champion knot his great hands together, while Jim’s eyes have smouldered like the forge embers as he listened.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
