ancony

English

Etymology

Unknown. Compare French encrenée (“iron twice heated and hammered”).

Noun

ancony (plural anconies)

  1. A piece of malleable iron that is wrought into the shape of a flat bar, about three feet long, with a square rough unwrought knob on each end.

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