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
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
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)
These were sparks from his great stithy, but a man of industry and talent might have shown them proudly as a lifetime's labour.
From My Contemporaries In Fiction by Murray, David Christie
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
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
The region of the stithies is passed, the little hammers are heard.
From The Wagnerian Romances by Brownell, Gertrude Hall
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