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
When he cut a hedge, for instance, Iden used to have the great bushes that bore unusually fine May bloom saved from the billhook, that they might flower in the spring.
From Amaryllis at the Fair by Richard Jefferies
One fine morning the old man went off to the hills with his billhook, to gather a faggot of sticks, while his wife went down to the river to wash the dirty clothes.
From Tales of Old Japan by Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford, Baron Redesdale
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
"Up thee goest, gaffer," said Joseph, handing over the little old lady's head the billhook and the saw.
From Aunt Rachel by David Christie Murray
