0 a block, usually of iron, on which metal objects (eg horse-shoes) are hammered into shape -- kovadlina
a blacksmith’s anvil.
While traditional slapstick cartoon characters prefer dropping anvils and pianos on each other, this show sometimes uses buses or submarines.
Their rare performances did feature at various times, sheet metal hit with sledgehammers, anvils, a power lawnmower and fist fights.
The outer octahedral cavity is pressed by 8 steel outer anvils.
The anvils also serve as electrodes providing electrical current to the compressed cell.
The anvil's distinguishing feature is that it juts out in front of the storm like a shelf.
Anvils have since lost their former commonness, along with the smiths who used them.
English anvils were often marked in hundredweight, the marking consisting of three numbers, indicating hundredweight, quarter hundredweight and pounds.
In addition, arrowheads, cores, anvils, hammerstones and pecking tools have also been recovered, apart from a large cache of obsidian artifacts.
