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
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Etymology
Origin of stithy
1250–1300; Middle English stithie, stethie < Old Norse stethi anvil
Example Sentences
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Hamlet: And my imaginations are as foul as Vulcan’s stithy.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 16, 2020
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
The ploughman in the loamy furrow sings, The sailor whistles as he reefs the sail, Blithe is the smith as the blows fall like hail From his huge hammer, and the stithy rings.
From Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland by Daniel Turner Holmes
I shall soon be back at my stithy, if you’ll hev me again.”
From Patience Wins War in the Works by George Manville Fenn
"And my imaginations are as foul As Vulcan's stithy."
From The Last of the Vikings by John Bowling
The region of the stithies is passed, the little hammers are heard.
From The Wagnerian Romances by Gertrude Hall Brownell
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