ambolt — meaning in English
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English meaning
- anvil noun A heavy block of iron with a flat top, used by blacksmiths as a surface for hammering and shaping hot metal.
Senses
ambolt is used for these senses in English:
- anvil A heavy iron block used in the blacksmithing trade as a surface upon which metal can be struck and shaped.
- anvil (skeleton) The incus bone in the middle ear.
- middle ear (anatomy) The cavity in the temporal bone between the eardrum and the inner ear that contains the ossicles, and which conveys sound to the cochlea.
anvil — full definition
- noun A heavy block of iron with a flat top, used by blacksmiths as a surface for hammering and shaping hot metal.
- noun The small anvil-shaped bone in the middle ear (also called the incus).
- noun A flat-topped, spreading cloud formation that appears at the top of a thunderstorm.
- verb To shape or hammer something as if working it on a blacksmith's anvil.