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

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 Whistler, Charles W. (Charles Watts)

"Set up the ladder here, Joseph," he said, pointing with the billhook to indicate the place.

From Aunt Rachel by Murray, David Christie

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 Jefferies, Richard