different between unwrought vs ancony

English

Etymology

From Middle English unwrought, unwroght, unwrou?t, equivalent to un- +? wrought. Doublet of unworked.

Adjective

unwrought (comparative more unwrought, superlative most unwrought)

1. In the native state, before being worked on; especially used of bars of bullion and other metal

Translations

Verb

unwrought

1. simple past tense and past participle of unwork
   • c. 1845-46, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Sonnets from the Portuguese, If Thou Must Love Me^[1]:

     […] Do not say
     ‘I love her for her smile — her look — her way
     Of speaking gently, — for a trick of thought
     That falls in well with mine, and certes brought
     A sense of pleasant ease on such a day’ —
     For these things in themselves, Beloved, may
     Be changed, or change for thee, — and love so wrought,
     May be unwrought so. […]

English

Etymology

Unknown. Compare French encrenée (“iron twice heated and hammered”).

Noun

ancony (plural anconies)

1. A piece of malleable iron that is wrought into the shape of a flat bar, about three feet long, with a square rough unwrought knob on each end.

References

This article incorporates content from the 1728 Cyclopaedia, a publication in the public domain.

Anagrams

• Canyon, canyon