Anvil: Definition and part of speech

Anvil

  1. v. t. To form or shape on an anvil; to hammer out; as, anviled armor.
  2. n. An iron block, usually with a steel face, upon which metals are hammered and shaped.
  3. n. Anything resembling an anvil in shape or use.
  4. n. the incus. See Incus.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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