The incus bone in the middle ear.
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.
To fashion on, or as if on, an anvil.
The chest, or front of the human thorax.
Either of the two organs on the front of a female human's chest, which contain the mammary glands; also the analogous organs in males.
The ventral portion of an animal's thorax.
The figurative seat of the emotions, feelings etc.; one's heart or innermost thoughts.
A section of clothing covering the breast area.
The front or forward part of anything.
The face of a coal working.
A choice cut of poultry, especially chicken or turkey, taken from the bird’s breast; also a cut of meat from other animals, breast of mutton, veal, pork.
The front of a furnace.
The breaststroke.
To push against with the breast; to meet full on, oppose, face.
To debreast.
To reach the top (of a hill).