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anvilling

anvilling 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 anvilling

What is anvilling the present participle and gerund of?
Anvilling is the present participle and gerund of anvil.

Words near anvilling in the dictionary

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

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