spearsmith

English

Noun

spearsmith (plural spearsmiths)

1. A smith who makes spears.
   • 1906, Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve, Charles William Emil Miller, Benjamin Dean Meritt, Tenney Frank, Harold Fredrik Cherniss, Henry Thompson Rowell, American Journal of Philology, page 3:

     ... Be thou neither cobbler nor spearsmith […]

   • 2015 December 31, Haruo Shirane, Tomi Suzuki, The Cambridge History of Japanese Literature, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN:

     This is supported by the fact that he was raised in the Yariyamachi (Spearsmith Block) of Osaka, in the shadow of the great Osaka castle, where metalworkers and merchants dealing in their wares dwelled.