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billhook

American  
[bil-hook] / ˈbɪlˌhʊk /

noun

  1. bill.


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

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of billhook

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

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

Max Reinhardt, whose castle�Leopoldskron�overlooks the crenelated streets of the old cathedral town, sent some weeks ago an army of mercenaries against the riding school with billhook, adz, hammer, saw.

From Time Magazine Archive

Cutting away the bushes with his billhook, the woodman next swings the cumbrous grub-axe, whose wide edge clears the earth from the larger roots.

From The Amateur Poacher by Jefferies, Richard

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

These tools—hoe, billhook, and cutting knives—were excavated at Jamestown.

From New Discoveries at Jamestown Site of the First Successful English Settlement in America by Cotter, John L.

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