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

Near the front of the seven hikers is a Welshman carrying a billhook, a backpack almost the same size as him, and what appears to all intents and purposes to be a briefcase.

From The Guardian

Samuel likes harvesting tobacco because “you get to use a large knife called a billhook.”

From Washington Post

It was frequently necessary to cut down with axes and billhooks the tangled undergrowth and creepers that wove themselves amid the trunks of the trees, in order to make room for the canoe to pass.

From Project Gutenberg

The Norman could conquer our billhooks, but not our tongues; and hard they tried it for many a long year by law and proclamation.

From Project Gutenberg