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smithcraft en · NOUN

Etymology

From Middle English smythcraft, from Old English smiþcræft, equivalent to smith + -craft.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The art or occupation of a smith, especially a metalsmith.
    • Inventors of Pastorage, Smith-craft, and Musick 1614, Walter Ralegh [i.e., Walter Raleigh], The Historie of the World […], London: […] William Stansby for Walter Burre, […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=1 to 5):
    • The villagers were counting on his smithcraft skills to produce the very best weaponry possible. 2008, J.T. Sibley, The Hammer of the Smith:
    • Like Minerva, Brigit was a goddess of poetry and wisdom, and she had two sisters also called Brigit, who presided over leechcraft and smithcraft respectively. 1890, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 2, page 240: