smithwright

A blacksmith.

Noun

  1. A blacksmith.
    • A smithwright and tailor are, also, good trades ; but spirits being so cheap, too many fall into the drink. - 1831, William Cattermole, Emigration, page 205:
    • Amongst the local craftsmen in the building and iron-workers' trades, carriage builders, smithwrights, mill hands, signwriters, painters and decorators, &c., are many former students. - 1906, Victorian Year-book, page...
    • Richard Davis of Dorchester was a smith-wright, whatever that may have been, and in the inventory of his probate record appears "ye Shoppe" with two cast anvils, bellows, and other tools for a smithwright. - 1932,...

Origin

From smith + wright.

Forms

smithwrights smith-wright