Smithy

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈsmɪθi/Rhymes: -ɪθi
• IPA: /ˈsmɪði/Rhymes: -ɪði

Origin

From Old English smiþþe, from Proto-Germanic *smiþjǭ, whence also Old Norse smiðja.

Full definition of smithy

Noun

1. The location where a smith (particularly a blacksmith) works, a forge.Traditionally a village smithy was a busy place because the smith's work was so necessary.

Verb

1. (uncommon) to forge, especially by hand
• 1995, John Francis Campbell, The Celtic Dragon Myth, page 59:So the old smith went out to his smithy and weighed out iron enough to make a stout staff a stone weight, and he smithied it well while his son looked on. ... So they weighed six stone of iron and smithied a great bent club like a shinny, and when that was made and cooled the smith's son said, "that will do."