stithy
Americannoun
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an anvil.
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a forge or smithy.
verb (used with object)
noun
verb
Other Word 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
A stithy is the smith's shop, as stith is the anvil.
From Hamlet by Kean, Charles John
A hea, where Wisdom mysteries did frame; Whose hammers beat still, in that lively brain, As on a stithy* where that some work of fame Was daily wrought, to turn to Britain's gain.
From English Literature for Boys and Girls by Marshall, H. E. (Henrietta Elizabeth)
And my imaginations are as foul As Vulcan's stithy.
From Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature by Bartlett, John
It may defy the best steel blade that was ever forged on Milan stithy to cut it asunder.
From Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 3 September 1848 by Various
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