anvil in English
- anvil⇄anvil, noun, verb, -viled,-vilingor (especially British)-villed,-villing.
- anvil⇄noun 1. an iron or steel block on which metals are hammered and shaped.
2. anything resembling a blacksmith's anvil in shape or use, such as the fixed jaw of a measuring instrument or steel bars struck like a blacksmith's anvil.
Ex. (Figurat - anvil⇄v.t. to fashion on or as if on an anvil; hammer out (used chiefly in figurative connotations).