Definition of anvil

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Anvil (n.) An iron block, usually with a steel face, upon which metals are hammered and shaped..

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Top-tool :: Top-tool (n.) A tool applied to the top of the work, in distinction from a tool inserted in the anvil and on which the work is placed..
Teest :: Teest (n.) A tinsmith's stake, or small anvil..
Anvil :: Anvil (n.) An iron block, usually with a steel face, upon which metals are hammered and shaped..
Stithy :: Stith (n.) An anvil; a stithy.
Stake :: Stake (v. t.) A small anvil usually furnished with a tang to enter a hole in a bench top, -- used by tinsmiths, blacksmiths, etc., for light work, punching upon, etc..
Stock :: Stock (n.) The support of the block in which an anvil is fixed, or of the anvil itself..
Stived :: Stithy (v. t.) To forge on an anvil.
Stiff :: Stiddy (n.) An anvil; also, a smith shop. See Stithy..
Incus :: Incus (n.) An anvil.
Anvil :: Anvil (n.) Anything resembling an anvil in shape or use.
Float :: Float (v. i.) A contrivance for affording a copious stream of water to the heated surface of an object of large bulk, as an anvil or die..
Stithy :: Stithy (n.) An anvil.
Anvil :: Anvil (n.) the incus. See Incus.
Hardy :: Hardy (n.) A blacksmith's fuller or chisel, having a square shank for insertion into a square hole in an anvil, called the hardy hole..
Horn :: Horn (n.) The pointed beak of an anvil.
Viceman :: Viceman (n.) A smith who works at the vice instead of at the anvil.
Incus :: Incus (n.) One of the small bones in the tympanum of the ear; the anvil bone. See Ear.
Anvil :: Anvil (v. t.) To form or shape on an anvil; to hammer out; as, anviled armor..
Bickern :: Bickern (n.) An anvil ending in a beak or point (orig. in two beaks); also, the beak or horn itself..
Beakiron :: Beakiron (n.) A bickern; a bench anvil with a long beak, adapted to reach the interior surface of sheet metal ware; the horn of an anvil..
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