beak-ironn.

Forms: Also 1800s beck-iron, 1800s– bick-.

Etymology: A corruption of bickern n. (= French bigorne, Italian bicornia, an anvil with two pointed extremities), altered first in form, and then in sense, by popular etymology.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈbeak-iron.

The pike or taper end of a blacksmith's anvil. Also, an anvil with two projecting taper ends.

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society > occupation and work > equipment > metalworking equipment > [noun] > forging equipment > anvil > tapering end

beak-iron1678

pike1678

horn1826

beak1831

bick1896

1678 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. i. 3 A Black Smiths Anvil..is sometimes made with a Pike, or Bickern, or Beak-iron, at one end of it.

1828 J. M. Spearman Brit. Gunner 109 Anvil and Bick Iron.

1831 J. Holland Treat. Manuf. Metal I. 160 The furniture of a blacksmith's shop..comprising..vice, anvil with bick-iron, etc.

1833 J. Holland Treat. Manuf. Metal II. 39 A little beaked anvil, called a beck-iron.

1941 Archit. Rev. 90 97/2 The bick iron, a narrow anvil, mounted about 3 feet 6 inches high, is for rounding, boring and cutting the iron hoops.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

单词	beak-iron
释义	beak-ironn. Forms: Also 1800s beck-iron, 1800s– bick-. Etymology: A corruption of bickern n. (= French bigorne, Italian bicornia, an anvil with two pointed extremities), altered first in form, and then in sense, by popular etymology.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈbeak-iron. The pike or taper end of a blacksmith's anvil. Also, an anvil with two projecting taper ends. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > metalworking equipment > [noun] > forging equipment > anvil > tapering end beak-iron1678 pike1678 horn1826 beak1831 bick1896 1678 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. i. 3 A Black Smiths Anvil..is sometimes made with a Pike, or Bickern, or Beak-iron, at one end of it. 1828 J. M. Spearman Brit. Gunner 109 Anvil and Bick Iron. 1831 J. Holland Treat. Manuf. Metal I. 160 The furniture of a blacksmith's shop..comprising..vice, anvil with bick-iron, etc. 1833 J. Holland Treat. Manuf. Metal II. 39 A little beaked anvil, called a beck-iron. 1941 Archit. Rev. 90 97/2 The bick iron, a narrow anvil, mounted about 3 feet 6 inches high, is for rounding, boring and cutting the iron hoops. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1678
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