[
US
/ˈænvəɫ/
]
[ UK /ˈænvəl/ ]
[ UK /ˈænvəl/ ]
NOUN
- a heavy block of iron or steel on which hot metals are shaped by hammering
- the ossicle between the malleus and the stapes
How To Use anvil In A Sentence
- The ‘hammer’ and ‘anvil’ bones of the mammalian ear are descendants of these nubbins.
- Bush and Rummy have been telling us it’s a war against terror – are they lying to us again anvil? Think Progress » New Report: Rumsfeld ‘Personally Involved’ In Torture Allegations at Gitmo
- Right now, the weather is great, but in the afternoon, they're concerned that these thunderstorms are going to move in, these so - called anvil clouds, which could contain rain or lightning, which could dangerous for the shuttle to launch. CNN Transcript Jun 30, 2006
- What Anvilhead supports is Bush, and bush has cost your country so anvilhead stand by your president as your doing and watch your country diminish into a third world countryand good cause the rest of the world is sick of america Think Progress » ‘This isn’t about the intel anymore.’
- Hand forging tools comprise variously shaped hammers. The base on which the work is supported during forging is the anvil.
- The anvil chorus of the gnathonic media and their coprophagic gossip columnists soi-disant "journalists" whose conservative exudates have imbrued the age with their mephitic poison, one that might yet prove fatal to us all—may just this once be muted, there being little further to be gained from their unguinous ministrations. Archive 2007-07-01
- Hammers and anvils were arrayed in neat lines while stocky men in the background sweated over their jobs.
- April 28th, 2006 at 12: 05 pm daehlivna says: anvilhead is a caca poopiehead too! neener neener Think Progress » ‘As Many as a Half a Dozen’ Members of Congress May Be Involved in Prostitution Scandal
- Beaumanoir in the thirteenth century laments the fact that every castellany in France had a differing law of its own, and Glanville still earlier makes a similar complaint of England. The History of England from the Norman Conquest to the Death of John (1066-1216)
- Accordingly, Manville took out his code manual and began preparing an official sanction for despatch to Brussels.