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
Come on, Master Tom, and I’ll get the billhook.
From The Vast Abyss The Story of Tom Blount, his Uncles and his Cousin Sam by George Manville Fenn
"A primitive method, and an easy one, saving the labour of billhook and axe."
From Sister Teresa by George (George Augustus) Moore
As Mark cut them down, some ash, some willow, and a few alder, Bevis stripped off the twigs with a billhook, and shortened them to the proper length.
From Bevis The Story of a Boy by Richard Jefferies
He raced up the meadow and found the labourer, with his thick white leather gloves and billhook, putting thorn bushes in the gaps, which no one had made so much as Bevis himself.
From Bevis The Story of a Boy by Richard Jefferies
