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noun

Smithery n. (pl. smitheries)

The workshop of a smith; a smithy or stithy.

Work done by a smith; smithing. "The din of all his smithery may some time or other possibly wake this noble duke."

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Etymology of 'Smithery'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Smithery" Quotes from Famous Books

... inconspicuous part. Ari, the great authority on early Norse history, speaking of the Greenland colonists, says in his Libellus Islandorum:[11-1] "They found there men's habitations both east and west in the land [i.e., in both the Eastern and Western settlements] both broken cayaks and stone-smithery, whereby it may be seen that the same kind of folk had been there as they which inhabited Vinland, and whom the men of Greenland [i.e., ...

— The Northmen, Columbus and Cabot, 985-1503 • Various

... and smithery, each plantation is almost independent of the neighborhood around it. The chief dependence upon the outside world is for farming tools and the necessary paraphernalia for the various branches of field-work. I knew one plantation, a short distance from ...

— Camp-Fire and Cotton-Field • Thomas W. Knox

... the meaning of a Greek particle. He is equally ignorant of music; he 'knows no touch of it,' from the strains of the all-accomplished Mozart to the shepherd's pipe upon the mountain. His ears are nailed to his books; and deadened with the sound of the Greek and Latin tongues, and the din and smithery of school-learning. Does he know anything more of poetry? He knows the number of feet in a verse, and of acts in a play; but of the soul or spirit he knows nothing. He can turn a Greek ode into English, or a Latin epigram into ...

— Table-Talk - Essays on Men and Manners • William Hazlitt