blacksmith

«blacksmith» in Mova's school dictionary: to make and repair things made of iron, such as… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a blacksmith, blacksmiths)

meaning for a pupil

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 →

sense 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 →
• The blacksmith put new shoes on the horse. tree →
• Every village used to have a blacksmith. tree →
• The blacksmith works at a forge with a big fire. tree →
• We watched a blacksmith make a hook at the museum. tree →
• The knight took his sword to the blacksmith. tree →

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.

In the corpora

• A blacksmith fits one horseshoe on each hoof, so every horse needs 4 horseshoes.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «blacksmith» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.