Meaning of twibill | Babel Free

Definitions

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.
   British, dialectal
3. A reaping hook, especially for cutting beans and peas.
   England, dialectal
4. A double-bladed halberd or battle-axe.
   obsolete

Examples

“[A] little fair-haired man, as broad as he was tall, who heaved up a long “twybill,” or double axe.”

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