smithy

From Middle English smythy, from Old Norse smiðja, from Proto-Germanic *smiþjǭ, whence also Old English smiþþe (whence (the doublet) obsolete English smithe).

• IPA^(key): /ˈsmɪθi/

  Rhymes: -ɪθi

• IPA^(key): /ˈsmɪði/

  Rhymes: -ɪði

smithy (plural smithies)

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.

smithy (third-person singular simple present smithies, present participle smithying, simple past and past participle smithied)

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."