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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blacksmith/#m1)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blacksmith/#x1)
- The blacksmith put new shoes on the horse. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blacksmith/#x2)
- Every village used to have a blacksmith. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blacksmith/#x3)
- The blacksmith works at a forge with a big fire. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blacksmith/#x4)
- We watched a blacksmith make a hook at the museum. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blacksmith/#x5)
- The knight took his sword to the blacksmith. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blacksmith/#x6)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/206-horseshoes/1/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «blacksmith» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blacksmith/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.