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
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
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 Jefferies, Richard
His lordship decided not to hear the question, and walked on a little ahead, swinging the billhook and the saw.
From Aunt Rachel by Murray, David Christie
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 Jefferies, Richard
