anvil
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A heavy iron block used in the blacksmithing trade as a surface upon which metal can be struck and shaped.
(RQ:Marlowe Edward 2)
(RQ:Shakespeare King John)
1794, Blake|William Blake, “Tyger|The Tyger,” lines 15-16,
- What the anvil? what dread grasp / Dare its deadly terrors clasp?
(RQ:Longfellow Ballads)
(RQ:Hopkins Poems)
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.
A horizontal-topped mass of cloud, shaped like a blacksmith's anvil, that forms before a thunderstorm.
{{quote-text|en|year=1648|author=Abraham Cowley|title=The Foure Ages of England, or, The Iron Age with Other Select Poems|location=London|section=Postscript|url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A34821.0001.001
{{quote-text|en|year=1671|translator=John Ogilby|title=Atlas Chinensis|location=London|chapter=A Third Embassy to the Emperor of China and East-Tartary|page=291|url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A36730.0001.001
(RQ:Richardson Clarissa)