Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An anvil with two projecting, tapering ends; hence, one such end; a beak-iron.
- noun Medieval milit., a name for the martel-de-fer, in allusion to its double head, of which one side was made pointed and the other blunt; any similar double-headed weapon or tool.
- noun Any iron implement ending in a beak: as if a contracted form of
beak-iron (which see). - noun Also
beckern .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An anvil ending in a beak or point (orig. in
two beaks); also, the beak or horn itself.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An
anvil with two projectingtaper ends.
Etymologies
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From Middle French bigorne.
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