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# blacksmith

noun (a blacksmith, blacksmiths)

«blacksmith» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

A person whose job is to make and repair things made of iron, such as horseshoes, gates and tools, by heating the metal and hammering it into shape. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blacksmith/#m1)

### In the lessons

In history lessons and old stories about villages, horses and knights. In science, heating metals to make them easier to shape. Phrases: «the village blacksmith», «the blacksmith's forge».

### Examples

- The blacksmith hammered the red-hot iron. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blacksmith/#x1)
- The blacksmith put new shoes on the horse. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blacksmith/#x2)
- Every village used to have a blacksmith. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blacksmith/#x3)
- The blacksmith works at a forge with a big fire. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blacksmith/#x4)
- We watched a blacksmith make a hook at the museum. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blacksmith/#x5)
- The knight took his sword to the blacksmith. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blacksmith/#x6)

### Note

Countable. Also «smith» alone; a «farrier» is a smith who shoes horses. «Black» refers to the dark iron, not the person. The family name Smith comes from this job.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «blacksmith» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blacksmith/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«blacksmith» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/blacksmith.html) on Mova free.