单词 | bickern |
释义 | bickernn. originally. An anvil with two projecting taper ends; later (under the influence of popular etymology; see beak-iron n.) applied to: One such taper end of an anvil. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > metalworking equipment > [noun] > forging equipment > anvil > types of bickern1547 stake1660 welting stake1660 stag1688 table anvil1824 sparrow-hawk1869 teest1877 1547 W. Salesbury Dict. Eng. & Welshe Eingion gyrioc, a bycorne. 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. 1780 J. T. Dillon Trav. Spain i. xiii. 137 They have no other word in the Spanish language, for a bickhorn, or a bench vice, than Vigornia. 1814 Archaeologia 17 292 And nails with a bickorne. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.1547 |
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