Word.ws English Dictionary

chainsmith

chainsmith noun: a person who makes metal chains.

Noun

chainsmith (plural chainsmiths)

  1. A person who makes metal chains.
    • We could never understand why any man should choose the career of a chainsmith, except, possibly, for the reason that it ran in the family, for a more arduous and unpleasant manner of earning one's living could scarcely be imagined, unless it was the business of moulding permanent-way chairs in an...1945 January and February, A Former Pupil, “Some Memories of Crewe Works—III”, in Railway Magazine, pages 13–14

Forms of chainsmith

pluralchainsmiths

Origin of chainsmith

From chain + smith.

Questions about chainsmith

What does chainsmith mean?
Chainsmith means a person who makes metal chains.
What part of speech is chainsmith?
Chainsmith is a noun.
What is the plural of chainsmith?
The plural of chainsmith is chainsmiths.

Words near chainsmith in the dictionary

  1. chainsaws
  2. chainset
  3. chainsets
  4. chainshot
  5. chainshots
  6. chainsmith
  7. chainsmiths
  8. chainsmoke
  9. chainsmoked
  10. chainsmokes
  11. chainsmoking

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: chainsmith (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “chainsmith.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/chainsmith. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.