anvil

anvil antonyms

anvil definitions

verb
  • To fashion on, or as if on, an anvil. 

noun
  • A stone or other hard surface used by a bird for breaking the shells of snails. 

  • A horizontal-topped mass of cloud, shaped like a blacksmith's anvil, that forms before a thunderstorm. 

  • The non-moving surface of a micrometer against which the item to be measured is placed. 

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

  • The incus bone in the middle ear.