billhook

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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

He came slowly down the ladder and, surrendering his billhook to Joseph, advanced and proffered a tremulous white hand.

From Aunt Rachel by Murray, David Christie

“I say, Buck,” he said, “it will be a case of spade and shovel and billhook to-morrow.”

From Dead Man's Land Being the Voyage to Zimbambangwe of certain and uncertain blacks and whites by Wood, Stanley L.

As Mark cut them down, some ash, some willow, and a few alder, Bevis stripped off the twigs with a billhook, and shortened them to the proper length.

From Bevis The Story of a Boy by Jefferies, Richard