noun. A double-bladed battle-ax, especially that carried by the Northern nations.

noun. A broadsword: so called from a misunderstanding of the word. See the quotation.

noun. A kind of double ax; a kind of mattock the blade of which has one end shaped like an ax and the other like an adz.

noun. A mortising-tool.

noun. A reaping-hook.

noun. Same as roaring boy (see roaring).

noun. An axe with two cutting blades

noun. A mattock

noun. A double bladed tool used in gate type hurdle making for cutting out mortices, with a flat chisel and a mortice chisel or hook, similar to the much larger french carpenter's tool, the bisaigue (or besaigue)

noun. A double-bladed halberd or battle-axe

"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."