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blacksmith. A smith is a craftsman who shapes any metal by hammering, and a blacksmith takes his name from the iron or black-colored metal he works with, not from the soot that gets on his clothes and skin while he works over a fire. His opposite is called a whitesmith, or tinsmith, one who works with tin or white metal. The Harmonious Blacksmith is the popular name of a musical composition by Handel; it wasn’t really suggested to him by a smithy hammering at his forge. |