Iron block, a feature of Elizabethan village

Usage examples of anvil.

Capustan shall be cleansed, Shield Anvil, though, alas, you will not live to see that glorious day.

Instead of walking to the back of the formation, Rutherford stepped to the side as an armorer brought up a portable forge and anvil.

The man was seated upon the ground holding a stone anvil between his feet, while with his hands he turned and chipped with great skill a spear-head he was making out of flint.

The Old Man began hammering a piece of hot metal on a great anvil, sparks fountaining from beneath his hammer as a waterfall of light.

If she was going to do some serious flint knapping, she needed an anvil, something to support the stone while she worked it.

Nubian -the eponymous smith - who, swinging high his hammer, was about to crush the noddle of a fallen enemy sprawled across the anvil.

Cruz groaned in agonizing pain as his eardrums exploded, the blow having separated the anvil where it joins the stirrup, disrupting the ossicular chain, and resulting in his sudden deafness.

Anvil peed copiously in the dust before he loped off in the same general direction.

English of old vaguely known as the Trumpa whale and the Physeter whale, and the Anvil Headed whale, is the present Cachalot of the French, and the Pottsfich of the Germans, and the Macrocephalus of the Long Words.

Shield Anvil round, in time to see Korbal Broach flying backwards from a backhanded blowdelivered by the Bonecaster Pran Chole.

The two walk into the smithy, where Rek is using the small anvil to forge nails.

A strange silence hung over the land, though houses stood undamaged, serene and peaceful, no smoke rose from the chimneys, no sound of horses stamping, children playing, hammers beating on anvils or the work-songs of women weaving or waulking their cloth.

The world might go withershins, but here was a cornerstone which could not be removed, an anvil which had worn out many hammers.

The pitted iron hardware deep lilac in color, smeltered in some bloomery in Cadiz or Bristol and beaten out on a blackened anvil, good to last three hundred years against the sea.

He knew that a treaty of this kind was actually upon the anvil between his Britannic majesty and the czarina, and he began to be apprehensive of seeing an army of Russians in the Netherlands.