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twilbil

twilbil 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 twilbil

pluraltwilbils

Questions about twilbil

What is twilbil the alternative form of?
Twilbil is the alternative form of twibill.

Words near twilbil in the dictionary

  1. Twihards
  2. Twihater
  3. Twihaters
  4. Twil
  5. Twila
  6. twilbil
  7. twilbils
  8. twile
  9. twilight
  10. twilight anesthesia
  11. twilight birth

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