ANCONY

AN'CONY, noun [Probably from Gr., the cubit, from its resemblance to the arm.]In iron works, a piece of half wrought iron, in the shape of a bar in the middle, but rude and unwrought at the ends. A piece of cast iron is melted off and hammered at a forge, into a mass of two feet long and square, which is called a bloom; then, carried to a finery, and worked into an ancony; it is then sent to a chafery, where the ends are wrought into the shape of the middle, and whole is made into a bar.

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ancony. Ancony, n. an iron bar, or bloomery

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An″co‐ny (�), n. [] (Iron Work) A piece of malleable iron, wrought into the shape of a bar in the middle, but unwrought at the ends.