| 释义 |
ironsmith Now rare or Obs.
[f. iron n.1 + smith.]
An artificer in iron; a blacksmith.
1382Wyclif Ecclus. xxxviii. 29 [28] The iren smyth sittende biside the stithie. 1535Coverdale ibid., The yron⁓smyth in like maner bydeth by his stythie. 1551Robinson tr. More's Utop. ii. ix. (1895) 301 Poore labourers, carters, yronsmythes, carpenters, and plowmen. 1609Bible (Douay) 1 Sam. xiii. 19 There was not found an yron smith in al the Land of Israel. 1634Sir T. Herbert Trav. 202 An Iron⁓smith. 1844Lingard Anglo-Sax. Ch. (1858) I. 244 The ironsmith, the joiner, and the goldsmith.
b. As a rendering of the native name of a bird, a species of barbet (Megalæma faber).
1885R. Swinhoe in Stand. Nat. Hist. (1888) IV. 420 From its loud, peculiar call, the Hainan species has earned among the natives of the island the appellation of ‘iron⁓smith’, whence I have derived its specific name [faber]. |