twibilltwybilln.

/ˈtwʌɪbɪl/

/ˈtwɪb(ə)l/

Forms: Old English twibile, Old English–Middle English twybile (Middle English twybyle); Old English, Middle English– twibil, Old English, 1500s– twibill (1500s -bylle); Old English, Middle English– twybill, Middle English–1500s twybil, twybyl(l(e, 1500s twybille; Middle English twybel(l, Middle English–1500s twyble, 1500s twible, Scottish twibbil, 1600s twibble; 1500s–1600s twyvel(l, 1700s twivil(l: see also tubbal n., tubber n.², and two-bill (two adj., n., and adv. Compounds 2).

Etymology: Old English twibil , -bill neuter, and twibile (masculine), < twi- comb. form + bill n.¹, bill n.²

archaic and dialect.

†1. A kind of axe with two cutting edges; formerly used for cutting mortises. Obsolete.

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society > occupation and work > equipment > cutting tool > axe > [noun] > two-edged

twibilla1000

besaguec1430

twyvetec1500

twibit1510

axe-adze1925

a1000 Prose Life Guthlac (1848) xii. 56 He..genam sum twibil, and mid þan þry men to deaðe ofsloh.

a1000 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 194/35 Bipennis securis, twilafte æx, uel twibile.

1295 Accts. Exchequer King's Remembrancer (P.R.O.: E101/5/8) m. 9 Et iiij.d...in .j. Twybile emendando.

a1340 R. Rolle Psalter lxxiii. 7 Wiþ bradaxis þai share down þe ȝates of it..in brade axe and twybile [L. in securi et ascia] þai kest it down.

a1350 in G. L. Brook Harley Lyrics (1968) 70 He mot myd is twybyl oþer trous make.

14.. Tundale's Vis. (Wagner) 722 Summe had twybyll, brodax and nawger.

c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 505/1 Twybyl, wryhtys instrument..bisacuta, biceps.

1500 Ortus Vocabulorum Bisacuta, a twybyll.

c1500 Debate Carpenter's Tools in Rev. Eng. Stud. (1987) 38 456 'Ȝe, ȝe,' seyd þe twybyll, 'Thou spekys euer ageyn skylle.'

1548 T. Cooper Bibliotheca Eliotæ (rev. ed.) Bipennis, a twybill, wherwith carpenters doo make their mortayses.

1587 Will of Arraie (Somerset Ho.) Two wombells and a Twyvell.

1656 T. Blount Glossographia Twibil (Belg. Tweebill), an instrument used by Carpenters to make mortise-holes.

1686 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Staffs. iv. 168 Grinding-stones..for thicker edg'd tooles, such as Axes, Hatchets, Chisells, Adds, Twy-bills, &c.

attributive.1641 Wits Recreations (new ed.) sig. N6 'Twill make a good ship-anchor, when he lackes, It is his gimlet, and his twibill axe.

a. A mattock; also a similar tool used in mining, a tubbal. Now local.

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society > occupation and work > equipment > mining equipment > [noun] > miner's pick

pulypyk1360

twibillc1440

mandrel1516

hack?a1558

two-billc1619

tubber1671

fouldenhead1747

poll-pick1747

tubbal1847

moil1871

dresser1881

the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > [noun] > mattock, hoe, or hack > mattock

mattockeOE

beckc1000

twibillc1440

cabbie1653

pattock1729

two-bill1808

mat1895

c1440 Pallad. on Husb. i. 1153 The mattok, twyble [v.r. twibil], picoys.

c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 505/1 Twybyl, or mattoke, marra,..ligo.

1558 T. Phaer tr. Virgil Seuen First Bks. Eneidos ii. E iv The plowmen with their axes strong..and twibles tall.

1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry i. f. 11^v Iron hookes, Iron forkes, Twybilles, Dung forkes.

1612 M. Drayton Poly-olbion xviii. 285 She learn'd the churlish axe and twybill to prepare, To steele the coulters edge.

1687 M. Taubman London's Triumph 7 Miners..bearing Spades, Pickaxes, Twibbles and Crows, fit to sink Shafts, and make Addits.

1898 Notes & Queries 9th Ser. 1 243/2 [Given as a Devonshire name for ‘a two-billed pick’.]

b. A reaping-hook used in cutting beans and peas; a pea-hook. dialect.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > harvesting equipment > [noun] > reaping tools > sickle > types of

staff-hook?1523

pease-hook1545

brush-scythe1573

grass hook1665

swipe1742

twibill1763

pea-hook1840

swap-hook1863

1763 Museum Rusticum (1764) 1 lxii. 263 The regularity with which these beans are sown, makes it much easier to cut them with the twibil and hink, than if they were sown at random.

1763 Museum Rusticum (1764) 1 lxiii. 266 Each labourer had in his right hand a cutting instrument called a twibil, and in his left a sort of hook called a hink.

1796 J. Boys Gen. View Agric. Kent (new ed.) 91 It [canary seed] is cut in the harvest..with a hook, called a twibil, and a hink.

1887 W. D. Parish & W. F. Shaw Dict. Kentish Dial. Twibil (twei·bil), a hook for cutting beans.

†c. See quot. 1706. Obsolete. rare.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.

ΚΠ

1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Twivill, an Iron-Tool us'd by Paviers.

3. A double-bladed battle-axe or bill. poetic. archaic.In quot. 1678 apparently a halberd carried by a constable of the watch.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > sharp weapon > axe > [noun]

wi-axc897

hand-axeOE

wifleOE

axec1275

poleaxe1294

Danish axe1297

hache1322

gisarmea1325

pollhache1324

spartha1363

battle-axec1380

the sheenc1400

sparc1440

Welsh glaive1483

twibit1510

twibill1558

tomahawkc1612

two-billc1619

sagaris1623

francisca1683

tom-axe1759

tomahawk1761

1558 T. Phaer tr. Virgil Seuen First Bks. Eneidos ii. sig. E.ij Him self in hand..a twyble great doth bryng.

1565 A. Golding tr. Ovid Fyrst Fower Bks. Metamorphosis iv. f. 1 Lycurgus with his twybyll sharpe.

?1611 G. Chapman tr. Homer Iliads xv. 656 Sharpe axes, twibils, two-hand swords, and speares with two heads borne, Were then the weapons.

1678 Jovialists Coronat. 3 in Loyal Garland D viij If..a Halberdly train, Or a Constable chance to rebel, And would with his twyvels maliciously swell And against the Kings party raise Arms.

1834 J. R. Planché Hist. Brit. Costume 31 They [Anglo-Saxons] had also axes with long handles which they called bills,..and the double-axe or bipennis (twy-bill).

1866 C. Kingsley Hereward the Wake I. xix. 346 A little fair-haired man..who heaved up a long twybill, or double axe.

1876 W. Morris Story of Sigurd i. 68 He bore a mighty twi-bill as he waded the fight-sheaves through.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	twibill
释义	twibilltwybilln. /ˈtwʌɪbɪl//ˈtwɪb(ə)l/ Forms: Old English twibile, Old English–Middle English twybile (Middle English twybyle); Old English, Middle English– twibil, Old English, 1500s– twibill (1500s -bylle); Old English, Middle English– twybill, Middle English–1500s twybil, twybyl(l(e, 1500s twybille; Middle English twybel(l, Middle English–1500s twyble, 1500s twible, Scottish twibbil, 1600s twibble; 1500s–1600s twyvel(l, 1700s twivil(l: see also tubbal n., tubber n.², and two-bill (two adj., n., and adv. Compounds 2). Etymology: Old English twibil , -bill neuter, and twibile (masculine), < twi- comb. form + bill n.¹, bill n.² archaic and dialect. †1. A kind of axe with two cutting edges; formerly used for cutting mortises. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > cutting tool > axe > [noun] > two-edged twibilla1000 besaguec1430 twyvetec1500 twibit1510 axe-adze1925 a1000 Prose Life Guthlac (1848) xii. 56 He..genam sum twibil, and mid þan þry men to deaðe ofsloh. a1000 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 194/35 Bipennis securis, twilafte æx, uel twibile. 1295 Accts. Exchequer King's Remembrancer (P.R.O.: E101/5/8) m. 9 Et iiij.d...in .j. Twybile emendando. a1340 R. Rolle Psalter lxxiii. 7 Wiþ bradaxis þai share down þe ȝates of it..in brade axe and twybile [L. in securi et ascia] þai kest it down. a1350 in G. L. Brook Harley Lyrics (1968) 70 He mot myd is twybyl oþer trous make. 14.. Tundale's Vis. (Wagner) 722 Summe had twybyll, brodax and nawger. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 505/1 Twybyl, wryhtys instrument..bisacuta, biceps. 1500 Ortus Vocabulorum Bisacuta, a twybyll. c1500 Debate Carpenter's Tools in Rev. Eng. Stud. (1987) 38 456 'Ȝe, ȝe,' seyd þe twybyll, 'Thou spekys euer ageyn skylle.' 1548 T. Cooper Bibliotheca Eliotæ (rev. ed.) Bipennis, a twybill, wherwith carpenters doo make their mortayses. 1587 Will of Arraie (Somerset Ho.) Two wombells and a Twyvell. 1656 T. Blount Glossographia Twibil (Belg. Tweebill), an instrument used by Carpenters to make mortise-holes. 1686 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Staffs. iv. 168 Grinding-stones..for thicker edg'd tooles, such as Axes, Hatchets, Chisells, Adds, Twy-bills, &c. attributive.1641 Wits Recreations (new ed.) sig. N6 'Twill make a good ship-anchor, when he lackes, It is his gimlet, and his twibill axe. 2. a. A mattock; also a similar tool used in mining, a tubbal. Now local. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > mining equipment > [noun] > miner's pick pulypyk1360 twibillc1440 mandrel1516 hack?a1558 two-billc1619 tubber1671 fouldenhead1747 poll-pick1747 tubbal1847 moil1871 dresser1881 the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > [noun] > mattock, hoe, or hack > mattock mattockeOE beckc1000 twibillc1440 cabbie1653 pattock1729 two-bill1808 mat1895 c1440 Pallad. on Husb. i. 1153 The mattok, twyble [v.r. twibil], picoys. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 505/1 Twybyl, or mattoke, marra,..ligo. 1558 T. Phaer tr. Virgil Seuen First Bks. Eneidos ii. E iv The plowmen with their axes strong..and twibles tall. 1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry i. f. 11^v Iron hookes, Iron forkes, Twybilles, Dung forkes. 1612 M. Drayton Poly-olbion xviii. 285 She learn'd the churlish axe and twybill to prepare, To steele the coulters edge. 1687 M. Taubman London's Triumph 7 Miners..bearing Spades, Pickaxes, Twibbles and Crows, fit to sink Shafts, and make Addits. 1898 Notes & Queries 9th Ser. 1 243/2 [Given as a Devonshire name for ‘a two-billed pick’.] b. A reaping-hook used in cutting beans and peas; a pea-hook. dialect. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > harvesting equipment > [noun] > reaping tools > sickle > types of staff-hook?1523 pease-hook1545 brush-scythe1573 grass hook1665 swipe1742 twibill1763 pea-hook1840 swap-hook1863 1763 Museum Rusticum (1764) 1 lxii. 263 The regularity with which these beans are sown, makes it much easier to cut them with the twibil and hink, than if they were sown at random. 1763 Museum Rusticum (1764) 1 lxiii. 266 Each labourer had in his right hand a cutting instrument called a twibil, and in his left a sort of hook called a hink. 1796 J. Boys Gen. View Agric. Kent (new ed.) 91 It [canary seed] is cut in the harvest..with a hook, called a twibil, and a hink. 1887 W. D. Parish & W. F. Shaw Dict. Kentish Dial. Twibil (twei·bil), a hook for cutting beans. †c. See quot. 1706. Obsolete. rare.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries. ΚΠ 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Twivill, an Iron-Tool us'd by Paviers. 3. A double-bladed battle-axe or bill. poetic. archaic.In quot. 1678 apparently a halberd carried by a constable of the watch. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > sharp weapon > axe > [noun] wi-axc897 hand-axeOE wifleOE axec1275 poleaxe1294 Danish axe1297 hache1322 gisarmea1325 pollhache1324 spartha1363 battle-axec1380 the sheenc1400 sparc1440 Welsh glaive1483 twibit1510 twibill1558 tomahawkc1612 two-billc1619 sagaris1623 francisca1683 tom-axe1759 tomahawk1761 1558 T. Phaer tr. Virgil Seuen First Bks. Eneidos ii. sig. E.ij Him self in hand..a twyble great doth bryng. 1565 A. Golding tr. Ovid Fyrst Fower Bks. Metamorphosis iv. f. 1 Lycurgus with his twybyll sharpe. ?1611 G. Chapman tr. Homer Iliads xv. 656 Sharpe axes, twibils, two-hand swords, and speares with two heads borne, Were then the weapons. 1678 Jovialists Coronat. 3 in Loyal Garland D viij If..a Halberdly train, Or a Constable chance to rebel, And would with his twyvels maliciously swell And against the Kings party raise Arms. 1834 J. R. Planché Hist. Brit. Costume 31 They [Anglo-Saxons] had also axes with long handles which they called bills,..and the double-axe or bipennis (twy-bill). 1866 C. Kingsley Hereward the Wake I. xix. 346 A little fair-haired man..who heaved up a long twybill, or double axe. 1876 W. Morris Story of Sigurd i. 68 He bore a mighty twi-bill as he waded the fight-sheaves through. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.a1000
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