Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: anvil
IPA transcription: ['ænvəl]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: anvil
    Meaning: a heavy block of iron or steel on which hot metals are shaped by hammering
Usage examples
  • The smith, leaning with his hammer upon the anvil, listened to them as they described the weapons.
  • With but little need of the help Mary yet gave him, Joseph got up, and led her to what was now a respectable little smithy, with forge and bellows and anvil and bucket.
  • That was not until the smith had beaten the head of an axe to the due sharpness of edge and dismissed it from his anvil. But in the meantime Tito had satisfied himself by a glance round the shop that the object of which he was in search had not disappeared.