单词 | silversmith |
释义 | silversmithn. A worker in silver; one who makes silverware. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > ornamental art and craft > artistic work in metal > [noun] > art of working in silver > silversmith silversmitha1000 society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > workers with specific materials > metalworker > [noun] > worker in gold or silver > silversmith silversmitha1000 argentaryc1384 a1000 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 99 Ic hæbbe..isenesmiþas, goldsmiþ, seolforsmiþ. a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Wisd. xv. 9 That me spute with gold smythis, and siluer smythis. 1534 Bible (Tyndale rev. Joye) Acts xix. 24 Demetrius, a silversmyth [1526 goldsmyth], which made silver schrynes for Diana. 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Silver-smith, one that makes all sorts of Silver and Gold-Plate. 1794 Ld. Auckland Corr. (1862) III. 250 I wrote to you on the 9th of this month a sort of silversmith's letter. 1827 R. Southey Hist. Peninsular War II. 476 Silversmiths were forbidden to purchase any articles in silver. 1879 Cassell's Techn. Educator (new ed.) IV. 146 The productions of the silversmith are principally the result of hammering. Derivatives ˈsilverˌsmithing n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > ornamental art and craft > artistic work in metal > [noun] > art of working in silver silversmithing1931 1931 E. Wenham Domest. Silver ii. 8 No period in the history of British silversmithing manifests more varying foreign influences than that of the sixteenth century. 1969 T. Lloyd in R. Blythe Akenfield xiv. 222 There is something else I do—silversmithing. I learnt it at evening classes. 1981 Times Lit. Suppl. 20 Feb. 194/5 Ashbee'n emerges as a many-sided creativity, embracing architecture, silversmithing and printing. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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