blacksmith
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In Pompeii, there are Avianius, a teenager apprenticed to a blacksmith, and Julia Felix, a rare female businesswoman who runs a kind of spa cum entertainment center for the well-to-do.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026
The game was played on a field behind the shop of the local blacksmith.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2025
Radhwan, a 70-year-old blacksmith, felt a bullet or a piece of debris — he couldn’t tell — graze his upper lip.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2025
He said some names were based on a person's trade, such as a blacksmith, while others were clever word play.
From BBC ● Jan. 26, 2025
Phineas had his tamping iron made to order by a neighborhood blacksmith.
From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman
Metals get softer when they are heated, which is how blacksmiths can form iron into complex shapes by heating it red hot.
From Science Daily ● May 22, 2024
The amateur blacksmiths were hard at work: heating metal rods, then hammering them into shape.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 25, 2023
They were doctors, lawyers, politicians, scientists, teachers, politicians, engineers, blacksmiths, generals, soldiers, artists, poets, writers, artisans, farmers, explorers, businesspeople, philosophers, and people from a range of other backgrounds.
From Salon ● Jul. 28, 2023
New businesses that sold and repaired cars replaced blacksmiths and stables.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022
Our village at the edge of the Białowieża Forest was made up of farmers and blacksmiths, butchers and tailors, teachers and shopkeepers.
From "The Boy on the Wooden Box" by Leon Leyson
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