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tran⋅chet

[trahn-shey; Fr. trahn-she]
–noun, plural -chets [-sheyz; Fr. -she] . Archaeology.
a stone implement with a horizontal, chisellike cutting edge, found at Mesolithic and Neolithic sites in macrolithic form, used as an adz, and in microlithic form, often mounted as the cutting head of an arrow.


Origin:
< F, equiv. to tranch(er) to cut (see trench ) + -et -et
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