I'm sorry about offending any francophiles out there, but that's the best appoximation I can come with. Can anyone help with the actual spelling? And possibly point me toward a source...

If my spelling is so atrocious that no one knows to what I'm referring, its a tool about three feet long with a wide chisel on one end and a mortising chisel on the other. Midway along its length is a handle.

On an unrelated note, which receives the appostrophe: the possessive of "it" or the contraction of "it is"?