smithwright
A blacksmith.
Noun
- 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.