ironworking
- noun
- /ˈaɪərnˌwɜrkɪŋ/
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forja
- During the workshop, participants learned the fundamentals of ironworking and crafted their own metal objects.
Examples
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SCOPE: How far back does ironworking go in your family?
Fiction book (2002) -
"We'll get a regular ironworking shop going, straight from the kiln and into a full-size works."
Fiction book (1990) -
Ironworking is a metaphor for the almost mystical abilities of rulers to incarnate the past and to perpetuate it in the present.
Academic text (1998) -
A Luba proverb states, "The anvil is the secret of power and progress," a reference both to the wealth implied by metalworking technologies and the more symbolic dimensions of ironworking as an art of transformation.
Academic text (1998) -
This king is considered the founding father of Kuba society; during his reign in the seventeenth century, he introduced or encouraged many important elements of Kuba culture, including ironworking, textile production, and woodcarving.
Academic text (2001) -
The blacksmith used his skills in ironworking to create a beautiful gate for the garden.
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Many ancient civilizations depended on ironworking to produce essential tools and weapons.
Synonyms
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4.5
A craft of shaping metal by heating and hitting it by hand to make or fix things
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3.5
Work that shapes metal into useful or decorative objects with tools
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5.8
A craft of making and fixing metal things by heating and hitting them
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4.6
A way of shaping metal by heating it and hitting it with a hammer
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3.8
Making objects by shaping and joining pieces of metal
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Ironworking is built from iron ('a common metal') and working ('making or shaping by hand or tools'). Think of a blacksmith heating and hammering metal to make tools or gates, and you have the image of ironworking, the craft of making things from iron.