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anviling

anviling is the present participle and gerund of anvil.

Meaning of anvil

Verb

anvil (third-person singular simple present anvils, present participle (US) anviling or (UK) anvilling, simple past and past participle (US) anviled or (UK) anvilled)

  1. (figuratively, often, transitive) To fashion on, or as if on, an anvil.
    • I Have anvil’d out this Iron Age,
      Which I commit, not to your patronage,
      But skill and Art […]1648, Abraham Cowley, The Foure Ages of England, or, The Iron Age with Other Select Poems, London, Postscript

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Questions about anviling

What is anviling the present participle and gerund of?
Anviling is the present participle and gerund of anvil.

Words near anviling in the dictionary

  1. anvil
  2. anvil cloud
  3. anvil clouds
  4. anviled
  5. anvilicious
  6. anviling
  7. anvilled
  8. anvillike
  9. anvilling
  10. anvils
  11. anvilsmith

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