anvil

English Thesaurus

1. a heavy block of iron or steel on which hot metals are shaped by hammering (noun.artifact)

hypernym	:	block,
definition	:	a solid piece of something (usually having flat rectangular sides) (noun.artifact)

part meronym	:	forge, smithy,
definition	:	a workplace where metal is worked by heating and hammering (noun.artifact)

2. the ossicle between the malleus and the stapes (noun.body)

hypernym	:	auditory ossicle,
definition	:	ossicles of the middle ear that transmit acoustic vibrations from the eardrum to the inner ear (noun.body)

part meronym	:	middle ear, tympanic cavity, tympanum,
definition	:	the main cavity of the ear; between the eardrum and the inner ear (noun.body)