Obs. (See quot.)
1674. Ray, Iron Work, in Collect., 128. After two or three heats and working they bring it to an ancony, the figure whereof is in the middle a barr about 3 feet long of that shape they intend the whole barr to be made of it.
1751. Chambers, Cycl., Ancony, a bloom wrought into the figure of a flat iron bar … with two square rough knobs, one at each end.
1795. Repert. Arts, in J. Holland, Manuf. Metal (1831), I. 124. Draw them under the forge hammer into anconies.
