billhook
Example Sentences
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Hedgelaying is winter’s work, done while the fields are fallow, but even in the chill, one sweats with the effort of swinging axes and billhooks.
From Washington Post • Jan. 11, 2019
She promptly resolved to clean it up, and every day thereafter from lunch until tea time, Britain's Queen Mother led a party armed with pruning shears, billhooks and mattocks, against the undergrowth.
From Time Magazine Archive
The batmen were sent out with a limbered cart, some smoke shell and the total establishment of billhooks, and forbidden to return without sufficient material for bedsteads, window-shutters, bookshelves and chairs.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, December 5, 1917 by Various
Then Melchisedec Baragwaneth bent slowly down, holding the Neck towards the ground, and all the labourers bowed low over their billhooks.
From Secret Bread by Jesse, F. Tennyson (Fryniwyd Tennyson)
With the fall of the billhooks fell solemnity, and men, women and children ran wildly hither and thither, shouting, singing, and breaking out into rough dances.
From Secret Bread by Jesse, F. Tennyson (Fryniwyd Tennyson)
