ancony
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Unknown. Compare French encrenée (“iron twice heated and hammered”).
Noun[edit]
ancony (plural anconies)
- 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.
References[edit]
1728, Cyclopaedia, a publication in the public domain.