stithy

English

Alternative forms

• stiddy, stythy

Etymology

From Middle English stithy, ultimately from Old Norse steði.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈstɪði/

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Noun

stithy (plural stithies)

1. An anvil.
   • 1825 June 22, [Walter Scott], Tales of the Crusaders. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC:

     how to forge his sword upon the stithy, as well as how to use it in battle

2. A blacksmith's smithy or forge.
   • c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:

     As foul as Vulcan's stithy.

Translations

an anvil — see anvil

smithy or forge

• Bulgarian: ковачница (bg) f (kovačnica)
• Russian: ку́зница (ru) f (kúznica)

Verb

stithy (third-person singular simple present stithies, present participle stithying, simple past and past participle stithied)

1. (transitive) To form on an anvil.

Anagrams

• shitty

Middle English

Alternative forms

• stedy, stethi, stethie, stethy, steþi, stidie, stidy, stithi, stithie, stithþi, stiþie, studee, stythie, stythy

Etymology

Either borrowed from Old Norse steðja, oblique singular of steði, or a remodelling of stith on the analogy of smythy. Doublet of stith.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈstidiː/, /ˈstiðiː/, /ˈstɛ-/

Noun

stithy (plural stithies)

1. anvil (iron block for shaping metal)

   Synonyms: anvelt, stith

Descendants

• English: stithy
• Scots: studdy, stiddy

References

• “stithī(e, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.