ANVIL (from Anglo-Saxon anfilt or onfilti, either that on which something is " welded " or " folded," cf.

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• GERMAN
• GERMAN, DUTCH AND SCANDINAVIAN

German falzen, to

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• FOLD

fold, or connected with other

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• TEUTONIC
• TEUTONIC (GERMANIC) LANGUAGES

Teutonic forms of the word, cf. German amboss, in which

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• CASE
• CASE, JOHN (d. 1600)

case the final syllable is from "

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• BEAT (a word common in various forms to the Teutonic languages; it is connected with the similar Romanic words derived from the Late Lat. battere)

beat," and  the meaning is " that on which something is beaten "), a mass of iron on which material is supported while being shaped under the hammer (see FORGING) . The common blacksmith's anvil is made of wrought iron, often in America of cast iron, with a smooth working face of hardened steel . It has at one end a projecting. conical beak or bick for use in hammering curved pieces of metal; occasionally the other end is also provided with a bick, which is then partly rectangular in section . There is also a square hole in the face, into which tools, such as the anvil-cutter or chisel, can be dropped, cutting edge uppermost . For power hammers the anvil proper is supported on an anvil block which is of great massiveness, sometimes weighing over 200 tons for a 12-ton hammer, and this again rests on a strong foundation of timber and masonry or concrete . In anatomy the term anvil is applied to one of the bones of the middle ear, the incus, which is articulated with the malleus .