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noun

anvil

a heavy block of iron or steel on which hot metals are shaped by hammering

In a sentence

Six example sentences with anvil, each labelled with its topic.

  • Every village once kept a smith whose anvil rang from dawn, mending plows and shoeing the farm horses.

    History

  • The sculptor works cold, so her anvil carries dents from thirty years of coaxing copper sheet into feathers.

    Art

  • Verdi wrote a chorus that strikes an anvil in rhythm, and percussionists still haul the real thing onstage.

    Music

  • In the crafting menu you drag iron to the anvil and hammer it into a horseshoe before the forge cools.

    Gaming

  • The village smith in the novel is always found at his anvil, and the ring of his hammer marks the passing chapters.

    Literature

  • The farrier's whole business travels in a van, with a portable anvil bolted to a stump behind the wheel well.

    Business

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