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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
anvil/ˈanvɪl/
▶noun
  • 1 a heavy iron block on which metal can be hammered and shaped.
  • 2 the horizontally extended upper part of a cumulonimbus cloud.
  • 3 Anatomy another term for incus.
– origin OE anfilte, from the Gmc base of on + a verbal stem meaning ‘beat’.



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