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anvil

noun as in blacksmith

Weak match

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INSIDER TIP: Anvil is not for the faint of wallet: fresh ingredients set imbibers back $8-$12 per cocktail.

Murmelstein was stuck with a thankless and impossible job, caught between the hammer and the anvil, as he tells us.

He seems relieved—like an anvil has been lifted from his shoulders—and so are we.

Where were you when the coalition hammer delivered Operation Noble Anvil?

If we had these rules, everybody would have known what was going on at JPMorgan Chase long before the anvil dropped on their head.

His tombstone in the churchyard consists of an anvil and hammer, wrought in stone.

We readily recognise the fact that when a hammer falls often on an anvil it heats itself and the metal on which it strikes.

The next moment Tom's hammer was making lively music upon his anvil, and Eddie was again on his way to school.

A few minutes after the blacksmith left me, I heard the hammer sounding upon the anvil in one of the caverns below.

In accompaniment, some one was beating softly on the anvil, and the bellows were blowing rhythmically.

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On this page you'll find 6 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to anvil, such as: farrier, horseshoer, plover, smithy, and shoer.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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