anvil

== English == === Etymology === From Middle English anfilt, anvelt, anfelt, from late Old English anfilt, anfilte, anfealt, from earlier onfilti (“anvil”), from Proto-West Germanic *anafalt (compare Middle Dutch anvilte, Low German Anfilts, Anefilt, Old High German anafalz), compound of *ana (“on”) + *falt (“beaten”) (compare German falzen (“to groove, fold, welt”), Swedish dialectal filta (“to beat”)), from Proto-Indo-European *pelh₂-t- (“shaken, beaten”) (compare Middle Irish lethar (“leather”), Latin pellō (“to beat, strike”), Ancient Greek πάλλω (pállō, “to toss, brandish”)), enlargement of Proto-Indo-European *pelh₂- (“to stir, move”). More at felon. === Pronunciation === (US) IPA(key): /ˈæn.vəl/, /ˈæn.vɪl/ (UK) IPA(key): /ˈæn.vɪl/ === Noun === anvil (plural anvils) A heavy iron block used in the blacksmithing trade as a surface upon which metal can be struck and shaped. 1794, William Blake, “The Tyger,” lines 15-16, What the anvil? what dread grasp / Dare its deadly terrors clasp? (anatomy) The incus bone in the middle ear. A stone or other hard surface used by a bird for breaking the shells of snails. The non-moving surface of a micrometer against which the item to be measured is placed. (meteorology) A horizontal-topped mass of cloud, shaped like a blacksmith's anvil, that forms before a thunderstorm. ==== Synonyms ==== stithy ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === Verb === anvil (third-person singular simple present anvils, present participle (US) anviling or (UK) anvilling, simple past and past participle (US) anviled or (UK) anvilled) (transitive, often figurative) To fashion on, or as if on, an anvil. === See also === hammer ossicle stirrup === Further reading === anvil on Wikipedia.Wikipedia === Anagrams === Alvin, Lavin, Vilna, nival, vinal == Indonesian == === Etymology === Borrowed from English anvil. === Pronunciation === (Standard Indonesian) IPA(key): /ˈanvil/ [ˈan.fɪl] Rhymes: -anvil Syllabification: an‧vil === Noun === anvil (plural anvil-anvil) (archaeology) anvil block used in blacksmithing a stone or other hard surface ==== Synonyms ==== landasan === Further reading === “anvil”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016