twybil

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A form of twibill — A two-edged tool used in gate-type hurdle-making for cutting out mortises, with a flat chisel and a mortise chisel or hook, similar to the much larger French carpenter's tool, the besaiguë (or bisaiguë).

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Meanings

nountwybil (plural twybils)

plural twybils

  1. alternativeAlternative form of twibill.

    A twybil is actually two chisels joined at the base with a long-handle socket at right angles to the point of junction. […] Used to cut large mortises in forming timbers, the twybil is sometimes swung and sometimes driven by striking with a heavy mallet on the long handle-socket.

    1972, Alex W[inkler] Bealer, “Chiseling”, in Old Ways of Working Wood, Barre, Mass.: Barre Publishing Company, Inc., published March 1976 (2nd printing), →ISBN, page 142
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