billhook

American  

[bil-hook] / ˈbɪlˌhʊk /

noun

1. bill.

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billhook British  

/ ˈbɪlˌhʊk /

noun

1. Also called: bill. a cutting tool with a wooden handle and a curved blade terminating in a hook at its tip, used for pruning, chopping, etc

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Etymology

Origin of billhook

First recorded in 1605–15; bill ³ + hook ¹

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Example Sentences

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billhook

Watch Tim Radford — in dreadlocks, just 36, the future of the sport — wielding his billhook blade and laying into his section of brush like the queen’s own tree surgeon.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 11, 2019

But now they chop and slash away without remorse, and the young forest-tree rising up with a promise of future beauty falls before the billhook.

From The Gamekeeper At Home Sketches of Natural History and Rural Life by Richard Jefferies

When he cut a hedge, for instance, Iden used to have the great bushes that bore unusually fine May bloom saved from the billhook, that they might flower in the spring.

From Amaryllis at the Fair by Richard Jefferies

"Yes, there or thereabouts," said Winterborne, a chop of the billhook jerking the last word into two pieces.

From The Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy

"Up thee goest, gaffer," said Joseph, handing over the little old lady's head the billhook and the saw.

From Aunt Rachel by David Christie Murray

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