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
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
That and a billhook stuck in his belt were his only weapons.
From King Olaf's Kinsman A Story of the Last Saxon Struggle against the Danes in the Days of Ironside and Cnut by Charles W. (Charles Watts) Whistler
What a noble tree an elm is, if its branches are spared by the billhook of pruner or axe of woodman!
From The Cruise of the Land-Yacht "Wanderer" Thirteen Hundred Miles in my Caravan by Gordon Stables
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 Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
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