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

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

"Yes, there or thereabouts," said Winterborne, a chop of the billhook jerking the last word into two pieces.

From The Woodlanders by Hardy, Thomas

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 Fenn, George Manville