LITERAL
* LITERAL ( value -- ) immediate

if compiling this will take the value from the compiling-stack
and puts in dictionary so that it will pop up again at the
run-time of the word currently in creation. This word is used
in compiling words but may also be useful in making a hard-constant
value in some code-piece like this:
 : DCELLS [ 2 CELLS ] LITERAL * ; ( will save a multiplication at runtime)
(in most configurations this word is statesmart and it will do nothing
in interpret-mode. See LITERAL, for a non-immediate variant)

FORTH/ANS core (dpANS.6.1.1780) compiling primitive