smithcraft

English

Etymology

smith +‎ craft

Noun

smithcraft (uncountable)

The art or occupation of a smith, especially a metalsmith.
- 1614, Walter Ralegh [i.e., Walter Raleigh], The Historie of the World […], London: […] William Stansby for Walter Burre, […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=1 to 5):
  Inventors of Pastorage, Smith-craft, and Musick
- 1890, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 2, page 240:
  Like Minerva, Brigit was a goddess of poetry and wisdom, and she had two sisters also called Brigit, who presided over leechcraft and smithcraft respectively.
- 2008, J.T. Sibley, The Hammer of the Smith:
  The villagers were counting on his smithcraft skills to produce the very best weaponry possible.

References

“smithcraft”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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