twibill

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  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. A mattock with one blade like an axe and the other like an adze. UK,dialectal
  3. A reaping hook, especially for cutting beans and peas. England,dialectal
  4. A double-bladed halberd or battle-axe. obsolete
    — [A] little fair-haired man, as broad as he was tall, who heaved up a long “twybill,” or double axe.

词形变化

twibills plural twibil alternative trybill alternative twilbil alternative twybil alternative twyvil alternative

词源

From Middle English twibill, from Old English twibill, from twi- (“double”) + bill (“edge, blade”), see also billhook.
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