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twibills

twibills is the plural 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

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What is twibills the plural of?
Twibills is the plural of twibill.

Words near twibills in the dictionary

  1. twi-weekly
  2. twibel
  3. Twibell
  4. twibil
  5. twibill
  6. twibills
  7. twibils
  8. twiblade
  9. twiblades
  10. twibling
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