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
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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 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 A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson
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 John Bartlett
His mind had conquered many things, Painting, mechanics, physics, law, White-hot, hand-beaten things to draw Self-hammered from his own soul's stithy, His speech was blacksmith-sparked and pithy.
From Reynard the Fox by John Masefield
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
The region of the stithies is passed, the little hammers are heard.
From The Wagnerian Romances by Gertrude Hall Brownell
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