Also 3 smiðien, 5 smyþ-, smyth. [f. SMITHY sb. With the early examples cf. SMITH v.]
1. trans. To make or fashion by smithing; to forge or smith.
c. 1205. Lay., 30749. Þe smið gon to smiðeȝe ane pic swiðe long.
c. 1386. Chaucer, Miller’s T., 576 (Lansd.). A smyþe … þat in his forge smyþeieþ plouhe hernays.
1839. Bywater, Sheffield Dial., 33, 1st. He moods t’ blade…. 3rd. Then he smithies it.
1892. Brooke, E. E. Lit., II. 27. A famous coat of mail that Weland the great forgeman had smithied.
b. To weld together by forging.
1868. G. Stephens, Runic Mon., I. 185. In others only every other ring is riveted, the alternate ones being smithied together.
2. intr. To practise smithing.
1866. Dasent, Gisli, 11. Gisli sat in the hall and smithied.
Hence Smithied ppl. a., Smithying vbl. sb.
c. 1449. Pecock, Repr., II. xviii. 256. An hamer forto make a knyf in smythiyng.
1868. G. Stephens, Runic Mon., I. 185. Each clincht ring grasps four smithied and … each smithied grasps four riveted.
1886. P. Robinson, Teetotum Trees, 142. To do a bit of smithying up at the forge.
