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ancon
[ ang-kon ]
noun
- the elbow.
- Architecture. a bracket or console, as one supporting part of a cornice.
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Derived Forms
- anconal, adjective
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Other Words From
- an·co·nal [ang-, kohn, -l], an·co·ne·al [ang-, koh, -nee-, uh, l], adjective
- ancon·oid adjective
- suban·cone·al adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of ancon1
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Word History and Origins
Origin of ancon1
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Example Sentences
You see the Ancon combined business with pleasure, and distributed coal in quantities to suit throughout the Alaskan lagoon.
Let me record an episode that occasioned no little excitement among the passengers and crew of the Ancon.
When an Ancon ewe is impregnated by a common ram, the progeny resembles wholly either the ewe or the ram.
We rocked like a cradle—the Ancon rocks like a cradle on the slightest provocation.
This example is from an ancient work basket obtained at Ancon, Peru, and shown in Fig. 299.
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