anvil
IPA: ˈænvʌɫ
noun
- A heavy iron block used in the blacksmithing trade as a surface upon which metal can be struck and shaped.
- (anatomy) The incus bone in the middle ear.
- A stone or other hard surface used by a bird for breaking the shells of snails.
- The non-moving surface of a micrometer against which the item to be measured is placed.
- (meteorology) A horizontal-topped mass of cloud, shaped like a blacksmith's anvil, that forms before a thunderstorm.
verb
- (transitive, often figurative) To fashion on, or as if on, an anvil.
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Examples of "anvil" in Sentences
- An anvil for him becomes pliant as wax.
- I'm still up in the air about the anvil.
- The computerization of library is on the anvil.
- He was the dragonfly on the anvil of destruction.
- An anvil plate is affixed to the bottom of the nose portion.
- It thumped to the ground like an anvil falling from the sky.
- The anvils and wheelssing to the rhythmof the hymn of the faith.
- The most common type of forging equipment is the hammer and anvil.
- A tubular anvil is received in the hole and is secured to the lever.
- Terms that, in Latin, are translated as the hammer, the anvil, and the stirrup.
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