billhook

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

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

His lordship was followed by Joseph Beaker, who bore the saw and the billhook, and the old nobleman was evidently somewhat fatigued, and carried the ladder with difficulty.

From Aunt Rachel by Murray, David Christie

"A primitive method, and an easy one, saving the labour of billhook and axe."

From Sister Teresa by Moore, George (George Augustus)

But now they chop and slash away without remorse, and the young forest-tree rising up with a promise of future beauty falls before the billhook.

From The Gamekeeper At Home Sketches of Natural History and Rural Life by Jefferies, Richard