Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun anvil

2 senses of anvil

Sense 1
anvil -- (a heavy block of iron or steel on which hot metals are shaped by hammering)
       => block -- (a solid piece of something (usually having flat rectangular sides); "the pyramids were built with large stone blocks")

Sense 2
incus, anvil -- (the ossicle between the malleus and the stapes)
       => auditory ossicle -- (ossicles of the middle ear that transmit acoustic vibrations from the eardrum to the inner ear)