billhook

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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

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

From Sister Teresa by Moore, George (George Augustus)

These bands of wild, half-clad kernes, armed with pike and billhook, might be brave indeed, but could do nothing against the disciplined soldiers of the Parliament.

From Friends, though divided A Tale of the Civil War by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)

A cutting instrument, with hookÏshaped point, and fitted with a handle; Ð used in pruning, etc.; a billhook.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Webster, Noah