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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

Chop, chop, chop, went Marty's little billhook with never more assiduity, till Mrs. Charmond spoke.

From The Woodlanders by Hardy, Thomas

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

"Set up the ladder here, Joseph," he said, pointing with the billhook to indicate the place.

From Aunt Rachel by Murray, David Christie

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