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

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

On that they gave me a woodman's billhook, and a seax,iii such as the churls wear, and one thrust a good ash, iron-shod quarterstaff into my hands.

From A Thane of Wessex by Whistler, Charles W. (Charles Watts)

Mayne had stuck the billhook of his section at the back of his knapsack, and the bullet struck it and flattened upon it.

From Deeds that Won the Empire Historic Battle Scenes by Fitchett, W. H. (William Henry)