0 a blacksmith. -- ช่างตีเหล็ก
1 a person whose job is to work with a particular metal, or make a particular type of article -- ช่าง
a silversmith
a gunsmith.
The smith is the ultimate sorcerer, who - while being visibly forging - is dealing with invisible forces which he masters or manipulates.
Hunters have to pay a certain tribute in meat in return for the new arrowheads they receive from the smith.
The banks have the unique ability to costlessly smith gold into a single gold consumption good.
Finally, banks smith the gold into the gold consumption good, and it is withdrawn and consumed by the depositors-intermediate-goods producers.
The smith not only is a kind of obstetrician, helping 'to deliver' the iron, he is also a carnivore.
Still, the smiths are very much respected and feared.
This smith-without-strength is unable to create, to transform matter, to generate.
By the early 1930s, however, the image of the smith had begun to fade or even drop out altogether.