twybil
twybil is the alternative form of twibill.
Meaning of twibill
Noun
twibill (plural twibills)
- 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).
- A mattock with one blade like an axe and the other like an adze.
- A reaping hook, especially for cutting beans and peas.
- 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 twybil
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Questions about twybil
- What is twybil the alternative form of?
- Twybil is the alternative form of twibill.
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