stithy
Americannoun
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stithies
plural
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an anvil.
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a forge or smithy.
verb (used with object)
noun
verb
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of stithy
1250–1300; Middle English stithie, stethie < Old Norse stethi anvil
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Hamlet: And my imaginations are as foul as Vulcan’s stithy.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 16, 2020
His mind had conquered many things, Painting, mechanics, physics, law, White-hot, hand-beaten things to draw Self-hammered from his own soul's stithy, His speech was blacksmith-sparked and pithy.
From Reynard the Fox by John Masefield
"You dear little Rosamond" "A stithy," said Rosamond, "is a kind of blacksmith shop."
From Miss Muffet's Christmas Party by Samuel McChord Crothers
His countenance was distraught and his eyes like those of an insane man, and sparks new from them like sparks from a smith's stithy when he mightily hammers iron plucked white from the furnace.
From The Coming of Cuculain by Standish O'Grady
A stithy is the smith's shop, as stith is the anvil.
From Hamlet by Charles John Kean
The region of the stithies is passed, the little hammers are heard.
From The Wagnerian Romances by Gertrude Hall Brownell
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