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
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
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
I’m off to the mountains with my billhook to gather a faggot of sticks for our fire.
From Japanese Fairy Tales by James, Grace
On that they gave me a woodman's billhook, and a seax,iii such as the churls wear, and one thrust a good ash, iron-shod quarterstaff into my hands.
From A Thane of Wessex by Whistler, Charles W. (Charles Watts)
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