Anvil vs Stithy - What's the difference?
anvil | stithy |
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)
(skeleton) An incus bone in the inner ear.
An anvil.
A blacksmith's smithy or forge.
* Shakespeare
As nouns the difference between anvil and stithy
is that anvil is a heavy iron block used in the blacksmithing trade as a surface upon which metal can be struck and shaped while stithy is an anvil.anvil
English
Noun
(en noun)- What the anvil ? what dread grasp / Dare its deadly terrors clasp?
See also
* hammer * ossicle * stirrupExternal links
* (wikipedia "anvil")Anagrams
*stithy
English
Noun
(stithies)- (Sir Walter Scott)
- As foul as Vulcan's stithy .