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forgemaster en · NOUN

Etymology

From forge + master.

Meanings

1. A craftsman skilled in forging iron or other metals.
   • Thus, 1,550 to 1,600 livres of fonte and about three bannes of charcoal (see Glossary) might be delivered to a forgemaster, who was then expected to produce at least 1,000 livres of iron with those materials. 1988, Paul Walden Bamford, Privilege and Profit: A Business Family in Eighteenth-Century France, Philadelphia, Pa.: University of Pennsylvania Press, →ISBN, page 100:
   • An eighteenth-century Marquis de Balleroy was a forgemaster but found local wood too expensive. He exploited the discovery at Littry in 1741 of a vein of coal, and in the nineteenth century up to six hundred men were at work in thirty shafts here. 1986, Richard Snailham, Normandy and Brittany: From Le Tréport to St-Nazaire, London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, →ISBN, page 136:
   • All ironsoul forgemasters are dwarven mastersmiths who possess skill at crafting arms and armor, but they are also great champions of the dwarven people. 2005, James Wyatt, Richard Baker, Frank Brunner, Stephen Schubert, Magic of Incarnum, Wizards of the Coast, →ISBN, page 126:

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