forgemasters

Noun

forgemaster (plural forgemasters)

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