smither

• IPA^(key): /ˈsmɪðə(ɹ)/

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smither (plural smithers)

1. (chiefly in the plural) A fragment, shard or small piece.
   • 1880, Alfred Tennyson, “[Ballads and Other Poems.] The Northern Cobbler”, in Ballads and Other Poems, London: C[harles] 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.

• smithereens

smith +‎ -er

smither (plural smithers)

1. A smith (worker with iron or other metals; one who smiths)

• “smither”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• hermits, mithers