Definitions for anvil

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anvil an·vil

Spelling: [an-vil]

IPA: /ˈæn vɪl/

Anvil is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 69 anagrams from letters in anvil (ailnv).

Definitions for anvil

noun

1. a heavy iron block with a smooth face, frequently of steel, on which metals, usually heated until soft, are hammered into desired shapes.
2. anything having a similar form or use.
3. the fixed jaw in certain measuring instruments.
4. Also called anvil cloud, anvil top. Meteorology. incus (def 2).
5. a musical percussion instrument having steel bars that are struck with a wooden or metal beater.
6. Anatomy. incus (def 1).

Origin of anvil

before 900; Middle English anvelt, anfelt, Old English anfilt(e), anfealt; cognate with Middle Dutch anvilte, Old High German anafalz. See on

Examples for anvil

But the popularity of the league is absolutely irrelevant anyway in terms of race: It still hovers like an anvil.

Rotha could hear the thick breathing of the bellows and the thin tinkle of the anvil.

In the middle of this chamber, two smiths, with hammers, stood beside an anvil.

He was a real sleight-of-hand man, and the anvil was his orchestra.

Murmelstein was stuck with a thankless and impossible job, caught between the hammer and the anvil, as he tells us.

He seems relieved—like an anvil has been lifted from his shoulders—and so are we.

My heart was pounding until in my own ears it sounded like an anvil chorus.

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He sat down on the anvil with his heart beating, and began to recall the picture.

If we had these rules, everybody would have known what was going on at JPMorgan Chase long before the anvil dropped on their head.