tranchet

[ trahn-shey; French trahn-she ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

, Archaeology.

, plural tran·chets [trahn-, sheyz, t, r, ah, n, -, she].

a stone implement with a horizontal, chisel-like cutting edge, found at Mesolithic and Neolithic sites in macrolithic form, used as an adze, and in microlithic form, often mounted as the cutting head of an arrow. Compare macrolith, microlith.

From French, equivalent to tranch(er) “to cut” ( trench ) + -et -et

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