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
Besides the sack of nets, the bag of ferrets, and a small bundle in a knotted handkerchief—his 'nuncheon'—which in themselves make a tolerable load, he has brought a billhook, and a 'navigator,' or draining-tool.
From The Amateur Poacher by Richard Jefferies
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
Percy Houghton had brought his father's hedging-gloves and a billhook, so, leaving Anthony as sentry by the tree, David, with the aid of the boys, repaired the hedge.
From For the School Colours by Angela Brazil
These tools—hoe, billhook, and cutting knives—were excavated at Jamestown.
From New Discoveries at Jamestown Site of the First Successful English Settlement in America by John L. Cotter
