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Anvil vs Anoil - What's the difference?

anvil | anoil |

As a noun anvil

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

As a verb anoil is

(obsolete) to anoint with oil.

anvil

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A heavy iron block used in the blacksmithing trade as a surface upon which metal can be struck and shaped.
  • * 1794, , lines 15-16 (for syntax)
    • What the anvil ? what dread grasp / Dare its deadly terrors clasp?
  • (skeleton) An incus bone in the inner ear.

    • See also

    * hammer * ossicle * stirrup

    External links

    * (wikipedia "anvil")

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    anoil

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To anoint with oil.
    • (Holinshed)
    (Webster 1913)