anvil

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A heavy iron block used in the blacksmithing trade as a surface upon which metal can be struck and shaped.

   “My heart is as an anvil unto sorrow, Which beats upon it like the Cyclops’ hammers […]”

2. isim The incus bone in the middle ear.
3. isim A stone or other hard surface used by a bird for breaking the shells of snails.
4. isim The non-moving surface of a micrometer against which the item to be measured is placed.
5. isim A horizontal-topped mass of cloud, shaped like a blacksmith's anvil, that forms before a thunderstorm.
6. fiil To fashion on, or as if on, an anvil.

   “I Have anvil’d out this Iron Age, Which I commit, not to your patronage, But skill and Art […]”