anvil | | |
n. (artifact) | 1. anvil | a heavy block of iron or steel on which hot metals are shaped by hammering. |
| ~ block | a solid piece of something (usually having flat rectangular sides).; "the pyramids were built with large stone blocks" |
| ~ smithy, forge | a workplace where metal is worked by heating and hammering. |
n. (body) | 2. anvil, incus | the ossicle between the malleus and the stapes. |
| ~ auditory ossicle | ossicles of the middle ear that transmit acoustic vibrations from the eardrum to the inner ear. |
| ~ middle ear, tympanic cavity, tympanum | the main cavity of the ear; between the eardrum and the inner ear. |
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