单词 | anvilling |
释义 | anvillinganvilingn. The action of forging or shaping something on an anvil; beating or hammering out. Also: an instance of this. Frequently (esp. in early use) figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > [noun] > shaping > by or as by hammering hammering1563 anvilling1599 1599 T. Nashe Lenten Stuffe 22 Very tractable to this lure I was trained, and put him not to the full anuiling [printed anniling] of me with any sound hammering persuasion. 1662 E. Phillips New World Eng. Words Ded. What Siftings, Anvelings, Traversings, there ought to be of Authours. a1688 R. Cudworth Treat. Eternal & Immutable Morality (1731) iv. iii. 220 They suppose the..Abstract and Universal Notions of the Mind, to be made..by hammering, beating or anvelling of them into thin Intelligible Ideas. 1751 T. Crowley Life & Adventures Mademoiselle de la Sarre vii. 93 It matters not, whether they have..blended them [sc. tinctures of religion] with shapeless Notions of their own anviling. 1865 E. Robinson Dorothy Firebrace I. ix. 85 But I interrupt your anvilling, master armourer. 1909 Blacksmith's Jrnl. June 23/1 A blacksmith's helper,..Whose anviling chimes o'er the hills. c1955 J. Agee in P. N. Jones Heaven & Hell to Play With 99 We will have a first draft ready for further anvilling, much sooner than I had estimated. 1993 Archaeol. in Oceania 28 109/1 The need for stone for other purposes such as pounding, anvilling or grinding. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1599 |
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