twybil

English

Noun

twybil (plural twybils)

  1. Alternative form of twibill.
    • 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:
      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.
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