Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In coal-mining, a pick with two prongs.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Coal Mining) A pick with two prongs, to pry with.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun mining A
pick with twoprongs , used forprying .
Etymologies
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Compare mandrel.
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Introduce a leathern canula, or gut, and then either a wooden maundril, or blow it up with air, so as to distend the contracted part as much as the patient can bear.
Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766
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