anvil
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noun- 1.
A heavy iron block used in the blacksmithing trade as a surface upon which metal can be struck and shaped.
1794, William Blake, “The Tyger,” lines 15-16, What the anvil? what dread grasp / Dare its deadly terrors clasp?
- 2.
(anatomy) The incus bone in the middle ear.
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A stone or other hard surface used by a bird for breaking the shells of snails.
- 4.
The non-moving surface of a micrometer against which the item to be measured is placed.
- 5.
(meteorology) A horizontal-topped mass of cloud, shaped like a blacksmith's anvil, that forms before a thunderstorm.
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verb- 1.
(figuratively, often, transitive)(transitive, often figurative) To fashion on, or as if on, an anvil.
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From Middle English anfilt, anvelt, anfelt, from late Old English anfilt, anfilte, anfealt, from earlier onfilti (anvil), from *anafalt (compare anvilte, Anfilts, Anefilt, anafalz), compound of *ana (on) + *falt (beaten) (compare falzen, dialectal filta (to beat)), from Proto-Indo-European *pelh₂-t- (shaken, beaten) (compare lethar leather, pellō, πάλλω), enlargement of Proto-Indo-European *pelh₂-…