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anvil
anvil is a 5-letter English word with 6 senses as noun and transitive verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: An iron block, usually with a steel face, upon which metals are hammered and shaped. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 11 · 6 senses
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- 1noun
An iron block, usually with a steel face, upon which metals are hammered and shaped.
- 2noun
Anything resembling an anvil in shape or use.
- 3noun
the incus. See Incus.
- 4transitive verb
To form or shape on an anvil; to hammer out; as, anviled armor.
- 5noun
a heavy block of iron or steel on which hot metals are shaped by hammering
- 6noun
the ossicle between the malleus and the stapes
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