One who works in tinned or galvanized iron, or
white iron; a tinsmith. [1913 Webster]
A worker in iron who finishes or polishes the
work, in distinction from one who forges it. [1913 Webster]
English
Translations
- Chinese: 白铁匠 (baitie jiang)
- Dutch: tingieter
- French: étameur, chaudronnier d'étain
- German: Blechschmied
- Italian: lattoniere
- Japanese: 板金工 (itakinkou)
- Korean: 양철공 (yangcheolgong)
- Latin: faber stannicus nominative singular, fabri stannici genitive singular and nominative plural, fabrorum stannicorum genitive plural
- Russian: кузнец олова (kuznets olova)
- Spanish: hojalatero , hojalatera
A whitesmith is a person who works with "white"
or light-colored metals
such as tin and pewter. While blacksmiths work mostly with
hot metal, whitesmiths do the majority of their work on cold metal
(although they might use a forge to shape their raw
materials).
The term is also applied to metalworkers who do
only finishing work - such as filing or polishing - on iron and other "black"
metals.