The extensive taboos and various restrictions surrounding thesmithyand the exercise of metalworking are described in detail.
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Finally, asmithyis not complete without a big whetstone (nkhu).
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The medievalsmithyand the post-medieval basement correspond to a border dividing two deep and narrow plots (396a-b).
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People do not sit with crossed legs in thesmithy, because that is just the way it is done.
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Hauptmann's third and fourth acts take place in a mountainsmithy, but the fifth and final act is set elsewhere and would have required a stage transformation in mid-course.
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Yet his is the onlysmithywithin a very large area.
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It had been the nation'ssmithyin two world wars.
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The oldsmithyhas been restored and is now occupied by a skilled metalworker who makes all sorts of things on the forge.
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He had made many of his own tools at the villagesmithy.
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Let me take the scenario where, under the spreading chestnut tree, the villagesmithystands.
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I have an employee—engaged on something totally different—whose father was a blacksmith, and thus he was virtually brought up in asmithy.
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He owns asmithyand a carpenter's shop, and is reported to have also dealt in cattle.
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They comprise 31 occupiers, a pub, and asmithy.
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The veterinary profession is as far away from thesmithyas the medical profession is from the barber's pole.
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The kind of case one has in mind is the small garage, smallsmithyor shop on which a person is dependent for his livelihood.
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