Someone who tames hot metal with hammer and anvil.
"Thou smith, thou wilt shoe a steed with a shoe that is naught; and the beast will go perchance scarce a mile thereon when it is already broken, and the horse may go lame, or a man be taken prisoner or lose his life. Thou art a devil and an apostate; thou must go to the apostate angels. They fell not from one Order only, but from all ten Orders; and so fall many thousand from these nine Orders. The tenth is utterly fallen beyond recall; I bar no man from contrition and repentance, but, otherwise, such as beat out the long knives wherewith men slay their fellow men, such may use deceit or not, may sell dear or cheap as they will, yet for their soul there is no help."
Berthold von Regensburg, Tricks of Trade, Sermons (13th century).
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