bick-iron

bick-iron
/bik"uy'euhrn, bik"euhrn/, n.
the tapered end of an anvil.
[1660-70; alter. (by assoc. with IRON) of earlier bickern for bycorne two-horned anvil < L bicornis two-horned (see BICORN); meaning perh. influenced by MF bigorne in same sense]

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