anvil

     

An anvil is a manufacturing tool, mae of a hard and massive block of stone or metal used as a support for chiseling and hammering other objects, such as in forging iron and steel items.

Trivia about anvil

  • 2 tiny bones in the ear, the malleus & incus, are better known as the hammer & this
  • This word for the block on which blacksmiths shape metal also refers to the lower plate of a stapler
  • Patrick Gilmore organized an 1869 concert that had 100 firemen on this "instrument" that's in the title of the following
  • (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from the Denver Mint once again.) Presses put designs on coins; a die called the hammer imprints the head side while one appropriately called this imprints the tail