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

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

I’m off to the mountains with my billhook to gather a faggot of sticks for our fire.

From Japanese Fairy Tales by James, Grace

When he cut a hedge, for instance, Iden used to have the great bushes that bore unusually fine May bloom saved from the billhook, that they might flower in the spring.

From Amaryllis at the Fair by Jefferies, Richard

A part of it she had cleared with a billhook, and since then Madcap had trodden a rough pathway with her frequent goings and comings.

From Lady Good-for-Nothing by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir