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
Example Sentences
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Hamlet: And my imaginations are as foul as Vulcan’s stithy.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 16, 2020
Multitudes of necessity toil in the stithy and deep mine.
From A Man's Value to Society Studies in Self Culture and Character by Newell Dwight Hillis
Here, on ordinary days, his furnace was seen to blaze, and four half stripped knaves stunned the neighbourhood with the clang of hammer and stithy.
From The Fair Maid of Perth Or, St. Valentine's Day by Sir Walter Scott
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 turning lathe occupies a considerable part of it; but when he requires more space, the village smith with his stithy, and the miller with his water-power, are always ready to help him.
From Men of Invention and Industry by Samuel Smiles
The region of the stithies is passed, the little hammers are heard.
From The Wagnerian Romances by Gertrude Hall Brownell
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