smithy

noun

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.”

   “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.”

   “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.”

verb

1. (uncommon)To forge (metal), especially by traditional blacksmith methods.

   “"That's funny looking mail, Sire," said Eustace. "Aye, lad," said Tirian. "No Narnian dwarf smithied that. […]”

   “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."”

name

1. A nickname of the surname Smith.