billhook
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of billhook
Example Sentences
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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
A part of it she had cleared with a billhook, and since then Madcap had trodden a rough pathway with her frequent goings and comings.
From Lady Good-for-Nothing by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir
"Up thee goest, gaffer," said Joseph, handing over the little old lady's head the billhook and the saw.
From Aunt Rachel by Murray, David Christie
Surely no billhook or axe of woodsman has ever come near it since first it began to grow.
From The Cruise of the Land-Yacht "Wanderer" Thirteen Hundred Miles in my Caravan by Stables, Gordon
These bands of wild, half-clad kernes, armed with pike and billhook, might be brave indeed, but could do nothing against the disciplined soldiers of the Parliament.
From Friends, though divided A Tale of the Civil War by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)
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