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plural smithies
The location where a smith (particularly a blacksmith) works, a forge. quotations examples
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
third-person singular simple present smithies, present participle smithying, simple past and past participle smithied
(uncommon) to forge, especially by hand quotations examples
"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