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
"Yes, there or thereabouts," said Winterborne, a chop of the billhook jerking the last word into two pieces.
From The Woodlanders by Hardy, Thomas
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
"A primitive method, and an easy one, saving the labour of billhook and axe."
From Sister Teresa by Moore, George (George Augustus)
Here he took the billhook and the saw from his assistant, and strode on, swinging one of the tools in each hand.
From Aunt Rachel by Murray, David Christie
