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visgy Cornish and Devon dial.|ˈvɪzgɪ|
Also visgie.
= bisgay.
1777in Eng. Dial. Dict. (1905) VI. 348/2. 1880 Courtney & Couch Gloss. Cornwall 62/1 Visgie, an agricultural implement, in shape between a mattock and a hammer, for beating down hedges. Ibid. 105 Visgy. 1899‘Q.’ Ship of Stars iv. 35 A knife lay between his wide-planted feet, and a visgy close behind him on a heap of disturbed sand. 1915Blackw. Mag. Apr. 546/1 The day being Sunday, he could not dare to risk outraging public opinion by carrying shovel or visgy through the open streets. 1954L. Walmsley Golden Waterwheel v. 91 For the roots I had a kind of double-bladed mattock, a combination of pick-axe, chopper, adze and hoe, known in Cornwall as a visgy. |