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 cutting instrument, with hookÏshaped point, and fitted with a handle; Ð used in pruning, etc.; a billhook.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Webster, Noah

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

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.