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n. A heavy block of iron or steel with a smooth, flat top on which metals are shaped by hammering.

n. Something resembling an anvil, as in shape or function.

n. The fixed jaw in a set of calipers against which an object to be measured is placed.

n. Anatomy See incus.

n. A heavy iron block used in the blacksmithing trade as a surface upon which metal can be struck and shaped.

n. An incus bone in the inner ear.

n. An iron block, usually with a steel face, upon which metals are hammered and shaped.

n. Anything resembling an anvil in shape or use.

v. To form or shape on an anvil; to hammer out.

n. An iron block with a smooth face, usually of steel, on which metals are hammered and shaped.

n. Figuratively, anything on which blows are struck.

n. In anatomy, one of the small bones of the ear, the incus (which see). See cuts under ear and tympanic.

n. In firearms, the resisting cone, plate, or bar against which the fulminate in a metallic cartridge is exploded. Wilhelm, Mil. Dict.

n. Milit., a small pennon on the end of a lance.

To form or shape on an anvil.

n. a heavy block of iron or steel on which hot metals are shaped by hammering

n. the ossicle between the malleus and the stapes

"In lieu of Baum’s timeless story, the bulk of the movie finds the star in anvil-subtle slapstick situations: getting stung in the rear by animated bees, being spit upon by a duck, falling down a hole, not realizing the phony Cowardly Lion was replaced by a real beast, etc."

block    auditory ossicle   

to be on the anvil    plattner's anvil    ossicle    stirrup    hammer   

stithy    teest   

forge    mallet    hammer    chisel    tongs    shovel    vise    loom    crowbar    smithy