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anvil noun & verb.
[Old English anfilte (earlier onfilti), anfealt = Middle Dutch aenvilte, Old High German anafalz, ult. from Germanic base of ON preposition + verbal stem meaning 'beat' (cf. FELT noun).]
A. noun.
A block (usu. of iron) on which a smith hammers and shapes metal. OE.
fig.: Burke He has now on the anvil another scheme.
a. Anatomy. = INCUS noun 1. E17.
b. Meteorology. A horizontally extended top of a cumulonimbus cloud. L19.
Comb.: anvil cloud a cloud with a horizontally extended top.
b. verb. Infl. -ll-.
verb trans. Fashion on an anvil. Freq. fig. L16.
verb intrans. Work at an anvil. L19.