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
"Yes, there or thereabouts," said Winterborne, a chop of the billhook jerking the last word into two pieces.
From The Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy
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
"Set up the ladder here, Joseph," he said, pointing with the billhook to indicate the place.
From Aunt Rachel by David Christie Murray
That and a billhook stuck in his belt were his only weapons.
From King Olaf's Kinsman A Story of the Last Saxon Struggle against the Danes in the Days of Ironside and Cnut by Charles W. (Charles Watts) Whistler
