shipsmith

English

Etymology

From ship +‎ smith.

Noun

shipsmith (plural shipsmiths)

  1. (nautical) Someone who forges the ironwork for ships
    • 2019 April 28, Nicole J. Williams, ““Whalecraft”: Clifford Warren Ashley and Whaling Craft Culture in Industrial New Bedford”, in “Whalecraft”: Clifford Warren Ashley and Whaling Craft Culture in Industrial New Bedford, →DOI, pages 185–217:
      The forge in the shipsmith’s shop is not much bigger than a bread oven.
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.