From Middle English smythy, from Old Norse smiðja, from Proto-Germanic *smiþjǭ. Cognate with Old English smiþþe (whence the obsolete modern doublet smithe, smythe (“the workshop of a smith, forge”)). See the Proto-Germanic entry for further cognates. Partially displaced by English forge.
Meanings
The location where a smith (particularly a blacksmith) works; a forge.
The workshop with its smithy is still intact, also the loading stage where the narrow-gauge wagons tipped their contents into those of the G.W.R. 1941 June, “Notes and News: The Derelict Glyn Valley Tramway”, in Railway Magazine, page 278:
Close to the hump-backed bridge on the lane leading into the Hambleden Valley is a mid-19th-century smithy, its inside walls hung with tools of the blacksmith's trade, though decorative wrought-ironwork is now the main product from its glowing forge. 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 214, about Hambleden:
Traditionally a village smithy was a busy place because the smith's work was so necessary.
From Middle English smythy, from Old Norse smiðja, from Proto-Germanic *smiþjǭ. Cognate with Old English smiþþe (whence the obsolete modern doublet smithe, smythe (“the workshop of a smith, forge”)). See the Proto-Germanic entry for further cognates. Partially displaced by English forge.
Meanings
(uncommon) To forge (metal), especially by traditional blacksmith methods.
"That's funny looking mail, Sire," said Eustace.
"Aye, lad," said Tirian. "No Narnian dwarf smithied that. […] 1956, C. S. Lewis, The Last Battle:
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." 1995, John Francis Campbell, The Celtic Dragon Myth, page 59:
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Translations (8)
ru кова́ть (to forge by hand) · pl kuć (to forge by hand) · de mit der Hand schmieden (to forge by hand) · pl wykuwać (to forge by hand) · ru вы́ковать (to forge by hand) · fi takoa (to forge by hand) · gl forxar (to forge by hand) · pl wykuć (to forge by hand)