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Definition of Twibil
1. n. A kind of mattock, or ax; esp., a tool like a pickax, but having, instead of the points, flat terminations, one of which is parallel to the handle, the other perpendicular to it.
Definition of Twibil
1. a battle-ax with two cutting edges [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Twibil
Literary usage of Twibil
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Costume in England: A History of Dress to the End of the Eighteenth Century by Frederick William Fairholt (1885)
"twibil. A sword. " Where twibil hung with basket hilt, Grown rusty now, but had
been gilt. ..."
2. Punctuation, and Other Typographical Matters: For the Use of Printers by Marshall Train Bigelow (1895)
"Webster, however, doubles the I in all these words but withal, therewithal,
wherewithal, until, and twibil. IV. FINAL e OR ck. 1. Monosyllables and verbs of ..."
3. Publications by English Dialect Society (1887)
"A peculiar flavour; a strong, rank, unpleasant taste ; elsewhere called a tack.
TWEAN-WHILES [twee'n-weilz] adv. Between times. twibil [twei'bil] sb. ..."
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