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twi-bill

  • noun [ masculineneuter ]
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Grammar
twi-bill, es; n.: twi-bile, es; m.
Wright's OE grammar
§585;
A two-edged axe
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  • Twibill

    bipinnis,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 12, 52.

  • Twybill

    bipennis,

    i.
      36, 5.

  • Twilafte æx vel twi*-*bile

    bipennis securis,

    ii.
      126, 28.

  • Twybile (-bil, MS. W.)

    bipennis,

      Ælfc. Gr. 9, 28; Zup. 56, 9.

  • Twibille

    bipinnae ( = bipenne ),

      Ps. Surt. 73, 6.

  • Hé nam sum twibil and mid ðan þrý men tó deáðe ofslóh,

      Guthl. 12; Gdwin. 56, 23.

  • Æcsa, twibilles (-as?)

    bipennes ł secures,

      Hpt. Gl. 459, 2.
Etymology
[Twybyle (printed twybyl, Wrt. Voc. i. 196, 10) bipennis (ina list 'nomina armorum'), Wülck. Gl. 654, 2. Twybyl bisacuta, 568, 21 (both 15th cent. glossaries). Twybyl, wryhtys instrument bisacuta, bi-ceps; twybyl or mattoke marra, ligo. Prompt. Parv. 505. A twybylie biceps, bipennis, bisacuta, Cath. Angl. 398, and see note. The word remains in some dialects, v. E. D. S. Pub. West Somerset Dialect, under two-bill, and Halliwell's Dict. twibil.]
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Bosworth, Joseph. “twi-bill.” In An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online, edited by Thomas Northcote Toller, Christ Sean, and Ondřej Tichy. Prague: Faculty of Arts, Charles University, 2014. https://bosworthtoller.com/31235.

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