Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Prov. Eng. 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.
- noun obsolete A tool for making mortises.
- noun A reaping hook.
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Examples
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He had even come to believe that the twibil was the key to destroying the emerald spheredidn2t Magius2s wizard2s staff shatter it the last time?
Kaz the Minotaur Knaak, Richard A. 2004
chained_bear commented on the word twibil
"Myers had brought a small but useful selection of tools... a barking ax and another felling ax, a plowshare for the spring planting, augers, planes and chisels, a small grass scythe, two hammers and a handsaw, a peculiar thing called a 'twibil' that Jamie said was for cutting mortises, a 'drawknife'.... and a froe for splitting shingles."
—Diana Gabaldon, Drums of Autumn (NY: Dell, 1997), 380-381
January 19, 2010