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anvilled

anvilled is the simple past and past participle 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 anvilled

What is anvilled the simple past and past participle of?
Anvilled is the simple past and past participle of anvil.

Words near anvilled in the dictionary

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

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