0 a person who makes and repairs iron objects and horseshoes --
1 a person who makes horseshoes (= U-shaped metal objects attached to a horse’s feet) and other things from iron --
The first was a house with a shop for a blacksmith, for which he received an annual rent of 2 florins.
Yet the poem denies any upward mobility to the blacksmith.
On board were a fully equipped turning and fitting shop and a large blacksmith's shop with four forges.
Most, as in any society, were labourers, artisans, craftsmen: dockworkers, blacksmiths, bricklayers, plasterers, caterers and cigar rollers.
The waxwork blacksmith, for example, could be poised ready to strike with his hammer at the forge.
But the beliefs linking political power to hunting and absolutist principles coexisted with the blacksmith king principle, which represented more democratic features.
The fast-growing industry was not one of large factories but rather of small semispecialized machine shops, all of which were called "blacksmiths" in the census.
Various possibilities were explored, but it soon became apparent that the most promising involved working with local blacksmiths and carpenters to produce tools.
