smither

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Etymology

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Pronunciation

Noun

smither (plural smithers)

  1. (chiefly in the plural) A fragment or atom.
    • 1880, Alfred Tennyson, “ The Northern Cobbler”, in Ballads and Other Poems, London: C Kegan Paul & Co., , →OCLC, stanza XVIII, page 38:
      My lass, when I cooms to die, / Smash the bottle to smithers, the Divil's in 'im,' said I.
    • 1920, Kennett Harris, Meet Mr. Stegg, page 164:
      That claim of mine, which was yours, has got a seventeen-foot vein and a sandstone roof, and not a smither of slate or bone in it.
  2. (UK, dialect, dated) Light, fine rain.

Translations

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “smither”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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