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anvil

Orchestral percussion instrument that imitates the sound of a blacksmith's anvil, but is constructed of small steel bars struck by a mallet of wood or metal. It can be so made as to produce notes of definite pitch, as in Wagner's opera Das Rheingold, but is usually indeterminate in pitch.



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While yet a little distance from the forge, moody Ahab paused; till at last, Perth, withdrawing his iron from the fire, began hammering it upon the anvil --the red mass sending off the sparks in thick hovering flights, some of which flew close to Ahab.
Moby Dick LXVIII-CXXXIV by Melville, Herman View in context
While I am hammering on the anvil, you sleep on the mat; and when I begin to eat after my toil, you wake up and wag your tail for food.
Fables by Aesop View in context
Now the reality was in my hold, I only felt that I was dusty with the dust of small coal, and that I had a weight upon my daily remembrance to which the anvil was a feather.
Great Expectations by Dickens, Charles View in context
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