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
“Strong man cut down trees, not strong man cut off branches,” said Pablo, taking up the billhook and setting to work to cut off the boughs, which he did with great dexterity and rapidity.
From The Children of the New Forest by Frederick Marryat
One fine morning the old man went off to the hills with his billhook, to gather a faggot of sticks, while his wife went down to the river to wash the dirty clothes.
From Tales of Old Japan by Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford, Baron Redesdale
That and a billhook stuck in his belt were his only weapons.
From King Olaf's Kinsman A Story of the Last Saxon Struggle against the Danes in the Days of Ironside and Cnut by Charles W. (Charles Watts) Whistler
Chop, chop, chop, went Marty's little billhook with never more assiduity, till Mrs. Charmond spoke.
From The Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy
