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
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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
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
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 O'Grady, Standish
Here have I two iron pots, a plate from my master's best greaves, and a pair of spurs that want piecing, and I'm like to tinker them as I list on a cold stithy.
From Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 by Roby, John
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
The region of the stithies is passed, the little hammers are heard.
From The Wagnerian Romances by Brownell, Gertrude Hall
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