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

One fine morning the old man went off to the hills with his billhook, to gather a faggot of sticks, while his wife went down to the river to wash the dirty clothes.

From Tales of Old Japan by Redesdale, Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford, Baron

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

From Aunt Rachel by Murray, David Christie

Surely no billhook or axe of woodsman has ever come near it since first it began to grow.

From The Cruise of the Land-Yacht "Wanderer" Thirteen Hundred Miles in my Caravan by Stables, Gordon