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Definition: TWIBIL |
TWIBILNoun1. A reaping hook. 2. A tool for making mortises. 3. A kind of mattock, or ax; esp., a tool like a pickax, but having, instead of the points, flat terminations, one of which is parallel to the handle, the other perpendicular to it. |
Date "TWIBIL" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1870. (references) |
Note: Twibil \Twi"bil\, noun. [from Anglo-Saxon expression twibill; twi- (in comp.) two bill, bil, an ax hoe, bill. See Twice, and Bill cutting instrument.]. (Websters 1913) |
Crosswords: TWIBIL |
| English words defined with "TWIBIL": Twibilled. (references) |
| Language | Translations for "TWIBIL"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Greek | δικέφαλοσ πέλεκυσ. (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | ibiltway | ||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "TWIBIL": twibill, twibills, twibils. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-i-i-l-t-w" | |
-2 letters: wilt. | |
-3 letters: bit, lib, lit, til, wit. | |
-4 letters: bi, it, li, ti. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-i-i-l-t-w" | |
+1 letter: twibill, twibils. | |
+2 letters: twibills. | |
+4 letters: billowiest, sewability. | |
+5 letters: washability, wearability, wettability, workability. | |
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