Word Meanings - JACKSMITH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A smith who makes jacks. See 2d Jack, 4, c. Dryden.

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• JACKSTRAW
  1. An effigy stuffed with straw; a scarecrow; hence, a man without property or influence. Milton. 2. One of a set of straws of strips of ivory, bone, wood, etc., for playing a child's game, the jackstraws being thrown confusedly together
• JACKSNIPE
  A small European snipe ; -- called also judcock, jedcock, juddock, jed, and half snipe. A small American sandpiper ; -- called also pectoral sandpiper, and grass snipe.
• SMITHSONIAN
  Of or pertaining to the Englishman J.L.M. Smithson, or to the national institution of learning which he endowed at Washington, D.C.; as, the Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Reports. -- n.
• JACKSTAY
  A rail of wood or iron stretching along a yard of a vessel, to which the sails are fastened.
• SMITHSONITE
  Native zinc carbonate. It generally occurs in stalactitic, reniform, or botryoidal shapes, of a white to gray, green, or brown color. See Note under Calamine.
• MAKESHIFT
  That with which one makes shift; a temporary expedient. James Mill. I am not a model clergyman, only a decent makeshift. G. Eliot.
• SMITHER
  Fragments; atoms; finders. Smash the bottle to smithers. Tennyson. (more info) 1. Light, fine rain. 2. pl.
• SMITH
  Icel. smi, Dan. & Sw. smed, Goth. smi ; cf. Gr. 1. One who forgess with the hammer; one who works in metals; as, a blacksmith, goldsmith, silversmith, and the like. Piers Plowman. Nor yet the smith hath learned to form a sword. Tate. 2. One who
• SMITHCRAFT
  The art or occupation of a smith; smithing. Sir W. Raleigh.
• JACKSTONE
  One of the pebbles or pieces used in the game of jackstones. A game played with five small stones or pieces of metal. See 6th Chuck.
• JACKSMITH
  A smith who makes jacks. See 2d Jack, 4, c. Dryden.
• JACKSAW
  The merganser.
• SMITHERY
  1. The workshop of a smith; a smithy or stithy. 2. Work done by a smith; smithing. The din of all his smithery may some time or other possibly wake this noble duke. Burke.
• SMITHEREENS
  Fragments; atoms; smithers. W. Black.
• JACKSLAVE
  A low servant; a mean fellow. Shak.
• SMITHING
  The act or art of working or forging metals, as iron, into any desired shape. Moxon.
• JACKSCREW
  A jack in which a screw is used for lifting, or exerting pressure. See Illust. of 2d Jack, n., 5.
• SMITHY
  The workshop of a smith, esp. a blacksmith; a smithery; a stithy. Under a spreading chestnut tree The village smithy stands. Lonfellow.
• WHITESMITH
  1. One who works in tinned or galvanized iron, or white iron; a tinsmith. 2. A worker in iron who finishes or polishes the work, in distinction from one who forges it.
• LOCKSMITH
  An artificer whose occupation is to make or mend locks.
• SILVERSMITH
  One whose occupation is to manufacture utensils, ornaments, etc., of silver; a worker in silver.
• IRONSMITH
  An East Indian barbet , inhabiting the Island of Hainan. The name alludes to its note, which resembles the sounds made by a smith. (more info) 1. A worker in iron; one who makes and repairs utensils of iron; a blacksmith.
• BLADESMITH
  A sword cutler.
• GUNSMITHERY; GUNSMITH; GUNSMITHING
  The art or business of a gunsmith.