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beak-iron
ˈbeak-iron Also 9 beck-iron, 9- bick-. [A corruption of bickern (= F. bigorne, It. bicornia, an anvil with two pointed extremities), altered first in form, and then in sense, by popular etymology.] The pike or taper end of a blacksmith's anvil. Also, an anvil with two projecting taper ends.1667 Moxo...
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bickern
bickern (ˈbɪkən) Forms: 6 bycorne, 8 bickhorn, 9 bickorne, 7– bickern. [a. F. bigorne (= Sp. vigornia, It. bicornia):—L. bicornia, pl. of bicornis two-horned, f. bi- two + cornu horn.] orig. An anvil with two projecting taper ends; later (under the influence of popular etymology; see beak-iron) appl...
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bick
▪ I. bick Short for bick-iron (see beak-iron) or bickern.1896 Farriers' Price List Suppl., Farriers' Anvils, with Steeled Bick. 1953 A. Jobson Househ. Crafts x. 112 The real hoops are made on a bick or beck-iron, which is an anvil mounted about 3 feet 6 inches high. 1957 R. Lister Dec. Wrought Ironw...
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beak
▪ I. beak, n.1 (biːk) Forms: 3–6 bec, 4–5 bek, beke, 4–6 beeke, 6 becke (pl. bex), 6–7 beake, 7 beack, 7–8 beck, 7– beak. [a. F. bec (= It. becco, Pr. bec, Sp., Pg. bico:—late L. beccus), of Gaulish origin. Suetonius says (Vitell. 18) that Antonius Primus, who was born at Toulouse, had as a boy the ...
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pike
▪ I. pike, n.1 (paɪk) Forms: 1 piic, 1, 3 pic, 3–4 pike, 3–6 pyk, 4–7 (9) pyke, 4– pike. [Found in OE. as piic (8th c.), p{iacu}c, in ME. pīk (pl. pīkes), later pȳke, pīke; beside which there existed from 14th c., in same senses, a collateral form with short vowel, pic, pik, pykk, now pick n.1 Cf. p...
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