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

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 Murray, David Christie

He had thought the matter out, and having returned the ladder and billhook to their places, pursued his way homeward.

From The Woodlanders by Hardy, Thomas

Cutting away the bushes with his billhook, the woodman next swings the cumbrous grub-axe, whose wide edge clears the earth from the larger roots.

From The Amateur Poacher by Jefferies, Richard