blacksmith

noun

1. A person who forges iron.

   “The blacksmith may forge what Religion he pleases.”

   “Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury, and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out.[…]. Ikey the blacksmith had forged us a spearhead after a sketch from a picture of a Greek warrior; and a rake-handle served as a shaft.”

   “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.”

2. (informal)A person who shoes horses.
3. A blackish fish of the Pacific coast (Chromis punctipinnis).

verb

1. (intransitive)To work as a blacksmith.

name

1. A surname originating as an occupation.