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stithy (STITH-ee) - (arch.) n., an anvil; a smithy, forge.


using a stithy in a stithy
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There's also an entirely obsolete verb sense of to forge/form on an anvil. Attested in the 13th century in the form stithie/stethie and stith, from Old Norse steưi, anvil.

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