forgemaster

English

Etymology

From forge +‎ master.

Noun

forgemaster (plural forgemasters)

1. A craftsman skilled in forging iron or other metals.
   • 1986, Richard Snailham, Normandy and Brittany: From Le Tréport to St-Nazaire, London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, →ISBN, page 136:

     An eighteenth-century Marquis de Balleroy was a forgemaster but found local wood too expensive. He exploited the discovery at Littry in 1741 of a vein of coal, and in the nineteenth century up to six hundred men were at work in thirty shafts here.

   • 1988, Paul Walden Bamford, Privilege and Profit: A Business Family in Eighteenth-Century France, Philadelphia, Pa.: University of Pennsylvania Press, →ISBN, page 100:

     Thus, 1,550 to 1,600 livres of fonte and about three bannes of charcoal (see Glossary) might be delivered to a forgemaster, who was then expected to produce at least 1,000 livres of iron with those materials.

   • 2005, James Wyatt, Richard Baker, Frank Brunner, Stephen Schubert, Magic of Incarnum, Wizards of the Coast, →ISBN, page 126:

     All ironsoul forgemasters are dwarven mastersmiths who possess skill at crafting arms and armor, but they are also great champions of the dwarven people.