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‖ tranchet|trɑ̃ʃɛ|
[Fr., f. trancher to cut.]
1. (See quot.)
1858P. L. Simmonds Commercial Dict. Trade Products 387/2 Tranchet (French), a shoemaker's heel knife.
2. Archæol. A flint with a chisel-shaped end, found in some mesolithic and neolithic cultures.
1899R. Munro Prehistoric Scotl. ix. 332 Among the stone relics are small axes (tranchets), precisely similar to those found in the Danish Kjökkenmöddings, knife-flakes, scrapers, &c., but no polished objects. 1926Guide to Antiquities of Stone Age (British Museum) (ed. 3) 150 One of the main flint forms..is the tranchet, or Shell-mound type of axe-head. 1977G. Clark World Prehist. (ed. 3) v. 214 New forms such as tranchets or miniaturized cleavers.
b. attrib. and Comb., designating chisel-shaped implements; tranchet blow, (a mark made by) a hard stroke at right angles to the main axis of an implement.
1931Antiquity V. 579 An explanation of the tranchet axe. 1949Proc. Prehistoric Soc. XV. 25 Near the base were also found two rather thick roughly made oval hand-axes with a tranchet blow at one end. 1957V. G. Childe Dawn Europ. Civilization (ed. 6) i. 11 Stone tools (including tranchet celts) from high strands on the Norwegian coasts. 1975J. G. Evans Environment Early Man Brit. Isles v. 103 The chisel-ended, or tranchet, arrowhead, specifically designed for immobilizing birds and other small game. |