Definitions For Twibill

Noun

TWIBILL (plural TWIBILLs) An axe with two cutting blades. A mattock. A double-bladed tool used in gate-type hurdle-making for cutting out mortices, with a flat chisel and a mortice chisel or hook, similar to the much larger French carpenter's tool, the besaiguë (or bisaiguë). (obsolete) A double-bladed halberd or battle-axe.

Alternative forms

trybill twilbil twybil twyvil

Etymology

From Middle English twibill, from {{inh, en, ang, twibill, }}, from twī-, , double + bill, , edge, blade, see also billhook.