stithy

American  

[stith-ee, stith-ee] / ˈstɪð i, ˈstɪθ i /

noun

plural

stithies

1. an anvil.

2. a forge or smithy.

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verb (used with object)

stithied, stithying

1. Obsolete. to forge.

stithy British  

/ ˈstɪðɪ /

noun

1. archaic a forge or anvil

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verb

1. obsolete (tr) to forge on an anvil

Etymology

Origin of stithy

1250–1300; Middle English stithie, stethie < Old Norse stethi anvil

Example Sentences

Hamlet: And my imaginations are as foul as Vulcan’s stithy.

From Washington Post • Apr. 16, 2020

It was as if Vulcan's stithy had been dropped down into a profound ravine of the Alps, and the drone of machinery mingled with the music of the fleeting river—a strange diapason.

From The Princess Passes by Williamson, A. M. (Alice Muriel)

The whole question has been expressed by the poet-philosopher Goethe in four lines, translated by Ebenezer Elliott, thus— How like a stithy is this land!

From The History Of The Last Trial By Jury For Atheism In England A Fragment of Autobiography Submitted for the Perusal of Her Majesty's Attorney-General and the British Clergy by Holyoake, George Jacob

Multitudes of necessity toil in the stithy and deep mine.

From A Man's Value to Society Studies in Self Culture and Character by Hillis, Newell Dwight

Even now, I prithee, Hark Him hammer On Heaven’s harmonious stithy, Dew-drunken––like my grammar!

From The Battle of the Bays by Seaman, Owen, Sir