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单词 ansal
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ansaladj.

Forms: 1500s ansall.
Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French ansal.
Etymology: < Middle French ansal used both ways, double (1533 in the passage translated in quot. ?15411) < classical Latin ānsa handle (see ansa n.) + French -al -al suffix1.Compare Cotgrave 1611 (at Anse) ‘vn pot à deux anses, an equiuocation; a word, &c, of double meaning, or whereof a double construction may be made’.
Obsolete. rare.
Cutting both ways, two-edged.
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the world > space > shape > sharpness of edge or point > [adjective] > of edge > having sharp edge > two-edged
two-edged1526
ansal?1541
double-edged1552
?1541 R. Copland Guy de Chauliac's Questyonary Cyrurgyens iv. sig. Piij The other [cultelere] is [called] Ansall [Fr. ansal] bycause it is made in maner of a swerde cuttynge on both sydes.
?1541 R. Copland Guy de Chauliac's Questyonary Cyrurgyens iv. sig. Pijv Openynge made with a knyfe ansall to drawe out the rottennes.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online September 2021).
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