Definition of Anvil

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Definition of Anvil

Anvil

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

Anything resembling an anvil in shape or use.

the incus. See Incus.

To form or shape on an anvil; to hammer out; as, anviled armor.

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Anvil Quotations

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.
Emily Dickinson

A family is a place where principles are hammered and honed on the anvil of everyday living.
Charles R. Swindoll

Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate.
Hubert H. Humphrey

We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.
Henry Ward Beecher

When your opponent is drowning, throw the son of a bitch an anvil.
James Carville

The anvil of justice is planted firm, and fate who makes the sword does the forging in advance.
Aeschylus

In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

One forges one's style on the terrible anvil of daily deadlines.
Emile Zola

For all your days be prepared, and meet them ever alike. When you are the anvil, bear - when you are the hammer, strike.
Edwin Markham

The country blacksmith who employs no journeyman is never conscious of any conflict between the capital invested in his anvil, hammer and bellows, and the labor he performs with them, because in fact, there is none.
Leland Stanford

Anvil Translations

anvil in Afrikaans is aambeeld
anvil in Danish is ambolt
anvil in Dutch is aambeeld, aanbeeld
anvil in French is enclume
anvil in Norwegian is ambolt
anvil in Portuguese is batente
anvil in Spanish is yunque

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