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Definition of anvil
1 : a heavy usually steel-faced iron block on which metal is shaped (as by hand hammering)
2 : incus
3 : the anvil–shaped top of a cumulonimbus
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Instead, I’d somehow managed to break it in a way that left my little piggy sticking out the side of my foot like a backwards anvil.
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The May 18 eruption was still in action during the afternoon hours, but its plume had a very different appearance -- most notably a long, dark anvil top that veered off to the east for hundreds of miles.
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An election ought to be the time when different approaches to the same questions are hammered out on the anvil of debate and campaigning.
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Tex Avery Your body has a remarkable elasticity, which allows it to immediately spring up like an accordion after being flattened by a falling anvil.
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This year, however, anxiety lurks in the anvil chorus.
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The formation developed at sunset with a huge, towering anvil cloud that stretched tens of miles from the center of the storm.
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From condemnation of Rouhani’s criticism of the revolutionary Guards on his campaign trail and TV debates, to cartoons of Trump pushing Rohani under an anvil of war, the conservative faction and press are having a field day.
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And the bones and stones were found in two areas, each roughly centered on what’s thought to be an anvil.
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Origin and Etymology of anvil
Middle English anfilt, from Old English; akin to Old High German anafalz anvil; akin to Latin pellere to beat — more at felt
ANVIL Defined for English Language Learners
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: a heavy iron block on which heated metal is shaped by hitting it with a hammer
ANVIL Defined for Kids
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: an iron block on which pieces of metal are hammered into shape
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