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
The canes are cut with a billhook, one at a time; and being fastened together in faggots, are sent off to the crushing-mill on mules’ backs or in carts.
From Old Jack by William Henry Giles Kingston
Here he took the billhook and the saw from his assistant, and strode on, swinging one of the tools in each hand.
From Aunt Rachel by David Christie Murray
"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
These bands of wild, half-clad kernes, armed with pike and billhook, might be brave indeed, but could do nothing against the disciplined soldiers of the Parliament.
From Friends, though divided A Tale of the Civil War by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
