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Definition of Stithy
1. n. An anvil.
2. v. t. To forge on an anvil.
Definition of Stithy
1. Noun. An anvil. ¹
2. Noun. A blacksmith's smithy or forge. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Stithy
1. to forge on an anvil [v STITHIED, STITHYING, STITHIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stithy
Literary usage of Stithy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Dialect of Craven: In the West-Riding of the County of York by William Carr (1828)
"Stiddy or stithy never signifies a smith's shop, as Dr. Johnson asserts. Mr.
Moor obstinately maintains, that the commentators on Shakspeare are wrong, ..."
2. The Iliad of Homer by Homer, John Graham Cordery (1871)
"Then brass eterne upon the fire he cast, Silver, and tin, and precious gold, and
laid Huge anvil on the stithy ; in his right A hammer, in his left he plied ..."
3. Hamlet, and As You Like it: A Specimen of a New Edition of Shakespeare by William Shakespeare, Thomas Caldecott, William Crowe, John Murray (1819)
"... been confined to the sense of " anvil," and stithy to that of " the shop. ...
Junius, Skinner, Holyoke, Littleton, have stithy. ..."
4. Suffolk Words and Phrases: Or, An Attempt to Collect the Lingual Localisms by Edward Moor (1823)
"stithy; a blacksmith's shop. These words are common in Suffolk, are archaic, and
have been ... 'stithy occurs in Shakespeare as a verb— By the forge that ..."
5. Suffolk Words and Phrases: Or, An Attempt to Collect the Lingual Localisms by Edward Moor (1823)
"stithy, a blacksmith's shop. These words are common in Suffolk, are archaic, and
have been ... stithy occurs in Shakespeare as a verb— By the forge that ..."
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