blacksmith
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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
Historical markings along Caliente-Bodfish Road indicate buildings that once existed: barbershop, a blacksmith, the Grand Inn and a livery stable.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2024
Shortly afterward Hugh the blacksmith and his wife and child are being crushed by the crowds desperately pushing against the soldiers standing in the way of their freedom.
From Salon ● Jul. 18, 2024
Niran, like his father and grandfather before him, was a blacksmith, and his family’s home had been built adjacent to the smithy over the course of many generations.
From "Huntress" by Malinda Lo
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
The sound of the blacksmiths hammer on his anvil reminded me of Polly, our tardy serving girl.
From "Fever 1793" by Laurie Halse Anderson
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