Blacksmith
['blæksmɪθ]
Definition
(noun.) a smith who forges and shapes iron with a hammer and anvil.
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Definition
(n.) A smith who works in iron with a forge, and makes iron utensils, horseshoes, etc.
(n.) A fish of the Pacific coast (Chromis, / Heliastes, punctipinnis), of a blackish color.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To see a blacksmith in a dream, means laborious undertakings will soon work to your advantage.
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Examples
- With my heart thumping like a blacksmith at Joe's broad shoulder, I looked all about for any sign of the convicts. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- There's a charming piece of music by Handel, called the Harmonious Blacksmith. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- I give Pirrip as my father's family name, on the authority of his tombstone and my sister,--Mrs. Joe Gargery, who married the blacksmith. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- You was saying, said the strange man, turning to Joe, that you was a blacksmith. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- We believe that Quintin Matsys was the BLACKSMITH of Antwerp. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- We are so harmonious, and you have been a blacksmith,---would you mind it? Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- From examining his military papers he knew the boy was from Tafalla in Navarra, twenty-one years old, unmarried, and the son of a blacksmith. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Fire melts ore and allows of the forging of iron, as in the blacksmith's shop, and of the fashioning of innumerable objects serviceable to man. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Your eyes dwell on a Vulcan,--a real blacksmith, brown, broad-shouldered: and blind and lame into the bargain. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Now, said he, doubling his great, heavy fist into something resembling a blacksmith's hammer, d'ye see this fist? Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- A journeyman blacksmith, though an artificer, seldom earns so much in twelve hours, as a collier, who is only a labourer, does in eight. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Have you happened to miss such an article as a pie, blacksmith? Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Blacksmith, eh? Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Then, a burst of gratitude came upon me, that she should be destined for me, once the blacksmith's boy. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Then will you set about it at once, blacksmith? Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- For generations they were blacksmiths and husbandmen. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Blacksmiths were detailed and set to work making the tools necessary in railroad and bridge building. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
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