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
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 Richard Jefferies
"Yes, there or thereabouts," said Winterborne, a chop of the billhook jerking the last word into two pieces.
From The Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy
“Strong man cut down trees, not strong man cut off branches,” said Pablo, taking up the billhook and setting to work to cut off the boughs, which he did with great dexterity and rapidity.
From The Children of the New Forest by Frederick Marryat
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
