Home › Words › S › smithworksmithworksmithwork means the work done by a smith (blacksmith); metal forgery.Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, smithwork ranks #16,733 of 42,747 for Qualifying.EtymologyFrom smith + work.nounThe work done by a smith (blacksmith); metal forgery.e.g.“Thereon embossed in excellent smithwork was seen the image of a queen of regal port, scion of the house of Brunswick, Victoria […]” — 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 12: Cyclops]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).