billhook

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

Chop, chop, chop, went Marty's little billhook with never more assiduity, till Mrs. Charmond spoke.

From The Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy

Then we got up the Government surveyor for the district, and to it we went with billhook and axe, theodolite and chain, fixing the boundaries and dimensions of our slice of forest.

From Brighter Britain! (Volume 1 of 2) or Settler and Maori in Northern New Zealand by William Delisle Hay

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 Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford, Baron Redesdale

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