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English : status name denoting a serf, Middle English, Old French vass(e), from Late Latin vassus, of Celtic origin. Compare Welsh gwas ‘boy’, Gaelic foss ‘servant’.English : variant of Vause.Swedish : variant of Wass.South German : variant of Fass.Hungarian : from vas ‘iron’, hence a metonymic occupational name for a blacksmith, or a nickname for a resilient, tough man.
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German : from a diminutive of Fink.German : indirect occupational name for a blacksmith, from a derivative of finken ‘to make sparks’.Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : ornamental name from Yiddish finkl ‘sparkle’.English : variant spelling of Finkle.
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Catalan
Catalan : occupational name for a blacksmith or a worker in iron, from Latin ferrarius. This is the commonest Catalan surname.English : variant of Farrar.
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The mythological Scandinavian Wayland was a blacksmith with supernatural powers. Modern singer...
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English : nickname, possibly for a small person, from Middle English pink, penk ‘minnow’ (Old English pinc).English (southeastern) : variant of Pinch.Variant spelling of German Pinck, an indirect occupational name for a blacksmith, an onomatopoeic word imitating the sound of hammering which was perceived as pink(e)pank.German (of Slavic origin) : from a diminutive of Sorbian pien ‘log’, ‘tree stump’, hence probably a nickname for a solid or stubby person.
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English (of Norman origin) : descriptive nickname for a bald man, from Middle English chaffin, a diminutive of Old French chauf ‘bald’ (Latin calvus).All present-day English bearers of the name Chaffin are descended from John Chaffin (died 1658), a blacksmith of Bruton, Somerset. The surname is now much more common in America than in England.
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From the land by the highway. The mythological Scandinavian Wayland was a blacksmith with...
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English : variant spelling of Machen.Spanish (MachÃn) : probably a nickname from machÃn ‘boor’, ‘lout’, often applied to a blacksmith’s apprentice.French : nickname from Old French machin ‘scheming’.
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English : variant of Bellew.English : metonymic occupational name for a bellows maker or someone who pumped the bellows, for example for a blacksmith or for a church organ, from Middle English beli. Until the early 15th century the term was normally used in the singular.Variant spelling of Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) and Russian Beloff.
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English : occupational name for a blacksmith (see Ferrier).
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English (Yorkshire)
English (Yorkshire) : occupational name for a blacksmith who specialized in shoeing horses, from Middle English schosmith ‘farrier’ (composed of words meaning ‘shoe’ and ‘smith’).
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The mythological Scandinavian Wayland was a blacksmith with supernatural powers. Modern singer...
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The mythological Scandinavian Wayland was a blacksmith with supernatural powers. Modern singer...
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English (of Norman origin)
English (of Norman origin) : occupational name for a blacksmith or worker in iron, from Old French ferron ‘blacksmith’, Latin ferro, genitive ferrÅnis, a derivative of ferrum ‘iron’. Compare Ferro.
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English : habitational name from a place in Lancashire named Hamer, from Old English hamor ‘rock’, ‘crag’.English : possibly a metonymic occupational name for a smith or for a maker or seller of hammers, Middle English hamer (Old English hamor), or a habitational name for someone living at an inn or shop distinguished by the sign of a hammer.Dutch : from hamer ‘hammer’, hence a metonymic occupational name for a maker of hammers or a user of a hammer, for example a blacksmith.Jewish (Ashkenazic) and German : variant spelling of Hammer.Slovenian : variant spelling of German Hammer.
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English : occupational name for a smith who worked in iron (‘black metal’), as opposed to tin (‘white metal’). This was never established as a surname in England or Scotland, which suggests that the name may have been adopted in North America as a translation of an occupational name for a blacksmith from some other language (see Smith).
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English : from Middle English blÅwere ‘one who blows’. The name was applied chiefly to someone who operated a bellows, either as a blacksmith’s assistant or to provide wind for a church organ. In other cases it was applied to someone who blew a horn, i.e. a huntsman or a player of the musical instrument.Welsh : Anglicized form of Welsh ab Llywarch ‘son of Llywarch’. Compare Flower.
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The workshop of a smith, esp. a blacksmith; a smithery; a stithy.
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One who forges with the hammer; one who works in metals; as, a blacksmith, goldsmith, silversmith, and the like.
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A tool, variously shaped or grooved on the end or face, used by blacksmiths and other workers in metals, for shaping their work, whether sheet metal or forging, by holding the swage upon the work, or the work upon the swage, and striking with a sledge.
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A tool employed by blacksmiths for punching or enlarging the nail holes in a horseshoe.
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A blacksmith's fuller or chisel, having a square shank for insertion into a square hole in an anvil, called the hardy hole.
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One who, or that which, strikes; specifically, a blacksmith's helper who wields the sledge.
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A pair of blacksmith's tongs.
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A blacksmith's hammer, suspended, and worked horizontally.
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A military mechanic, as a blacksmith, carpenter, etc.; also, one who prepares the shells, fuses, grenades, etc., in a military laboratory.
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A smith who works in iron with a forge, and makes iron utensils, horseshoes, etc.
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Work wrought by blacksmiths; -- so called in distinction from that wrought by whitesmiths.
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A worker in iron; one who makes and repairs utensils of iron; a blacksmith.
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A fish of the Pacific coast (Chromis, / Heliastes, punctipinnis), of a blackish color.
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A small anvil usually furnished with a tang to enter a hole in a bench top, -- used by tinsmiths, blacksmiths, etc., for light work, punching upon, etc.