Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: blacksmith
IPA transcription: [bl'æksm,ɪθ]
Pronunciations of blacksmith
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noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: blacksmith
    Meaning: a smith who forges and shapes iron with a hammer and anvil
Usage examples
  • Apply the blacksmith's homely principle when you are speaking.
  • With indignation, as if it were a snake that had bit him, the blacksmith flung from him the hand he held.
  • Down in the blacksmith shop Chip was putting new rowels into his spurs and whistling softly to himself while he worked.
  • On examination, the man proved to be their neighbour the blacksmith, dreadfully torn about the throat, and quite dead."
  • Instead, he went outside and brought in two sheepskins, which he stained red and sent for a blacksmith to forge some iron rings.
  • Before the day was over I saw that we had to do with a blacksmith, a fisherman, a hunter, a joiner, but not at all with a minister of the Gospel.
  • She was now no more content with her little cottage piano, but had an instrument of quite another capacity on which to accompany the violin of the blacksmith.
  • Mary began her story with the incident of her having been pursued by some one, and rescued by the blacksmith, whom she told her listeners she had known in London.
  • In the night the women were disturbed by the uneasiness of the dog, and heard a noise apparently like an attempt to force an entrance into the premises, upon which they escaped by the back-door, and ran to a neighbouring house, which happened to be a blacksmith's shop.
  • It was something tangible upon which to pour profanity, however, and the atmosphere grew sulphurous in the vicinity of the blacksmith shop and remained so for several minutes, after which a tall, irate cow-puncher with his hat pulled low over angry eyes left the shop and strode up the path to the deserted bunk house.
0. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Rice, Minnesota, License CC BY-SA 4.0