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trybill

trybill is the alternative form of twibill.

Meaning of twibill

Noun

twibill (plural twibills)

  1. A two-edged tool used in gate-type hurdle-making for cutting out mortises, with a flat chisel and a mortise chisel or hook, similar to the much larger French carpenter's tool, the besaiguë (or bisaiguë).
  2. (UK, dialectal) A mattock with one blade like an axe and the other like an adze.
  3. (England, dialectal) A reaping hook, especially for cutting beans and peas.
  4. (obsolete) A double-bladed halberd or battle-axe.
    • [A] little fair-haired man, as broad as he was tall, who heaved up a long “twybill,” or double axe.1866, Charles Kingsley, chapter 19, in Hereward the Wake, London: Nelson, page 258

Forms of trybill

pluraltrybills

Questions about trybill

What is trybill the alternative form of?
Trybill is the alternative form of twibill.

Words near trybill in the dictionary

  1. tryable
  2. tryal
  3. tryall
  4. tryalls
  5. tryals
  6. trybill
  7. trybills
  8. tryblidiacean
  9. tryblidiid
  10. tryblidiids
  11. trychostatin

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Adapted from Wiktionary: trybill (page history and authors); twibill (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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