visgyn.
/ˈvɪzɡi/ Cornish and Devon dialect.
= bisgay n.
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visgy1777
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1777 in Eng. Dial. Dict. (1905) VI. 348/2.
1880 M. A. Courtney W. Cornwall Words in M. A. Courtney & T. Q. Couch Gloss. Words Cornwall 62/1 Visgie, an agricultural implement, in shape between a mattock and a hammer, for beating down hedges.
1880 T. Q. Couch E. Cornwall Words in M. A. Courtney & T. Q. Couch Gloss. Words Cornwall 105 Visgy, a mattock.
1899 A. Quiller-Couch Ship of Stars iv. 35 A knife lay between his wide-planted feet, and a visgy close behind him on a heap of disturbed sand.
1915 Blackwood's Mag. Apr. 546/1 The day being Sunday, he could not dare to risk outraging public opinion by carrying shovel or visgy through the open streets.
1954 L. Walmsley Golden Waterwheel v. 91 For the roots I had a kind of double-bladed mattock, a combination of pick-axe, chopper, adze and hoe, known in Cornwall as a visgy.
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