twibill

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We have ‘twilight’, but ‘twibill’ = bipennis (Chapman) is extinct.

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  1. noun Archaic A battle-ax with two cutting edges.
  2. noun Archaic A mattock with one blade like an ax and the other like an adz.

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  • A round buckler he bore and a huge twibill, which no man of the kindred could well wield save himself; and it was done both blade and shaft with knots and runes in gold; and he loved that twibill well, and called it the Wolf's Sister There then stood Heriulf, looking no less than one of the forefathers of the kindred come back again to the battle of the Wolfings He was well-beloved for his wondrous might, and he was no hard man, though so fell a warrior, and though of few words, as aforesaid, was a blithe companion to old and young. —  The House of the Wolfings
  • We have ‘twilight’, but ‘twibill’ = bipennis (Chapman) is extinct. —  English Past and Present
  • A round buckler he bore and a huge twibill, which no man of the kindred could well wield save himself; and it was done both blade and shaft with knots and runes in gold; and he loved that twibill well, and called it the Wolf's Sister. —  The House of the Wolfings
  • -- The words _enroll, unroll, miscall, befall, befell, bethrall, reinstall, disinthrall, fulfill_, and _twibill_, are very commonly written with one _l_, and made exceptions to this rule; but those authors are in the right who retain the double letter. —  The Grammar of English Grammars
 

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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Middle English, from Old English : twi-, two; see dwo- in Indo-European roots + bil, billhook.

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  1. Formerly also twibil, twybill, twybil, twyble; from Middle English twibil, twyble, from Anglo-Saxon twibill, from twi-, two, + bill, a bill: see twi- and bill.
 

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