Billhook

Word BILLHOOK
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Hyphenation bill hook
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Definitions and meanings of "Billhook"

What do we mean by billhook?

An implement with a curved blade attached to a handle, used especially for clearing brush and for rough pruning. noun

A form of small hatchet curved inward at the point of the cutting edge, used for pruning trees, hedges, and the like, and by sappers and miners to cut pickets, rods, and withes for gabions, fascines, hurdles, saprollers, etc. noun

A thick, heavy knife with a hooked point, used in pruning hedges, etc. When it has a short handle, it is sometimes called a hand bill; when the handle is long, a hedge bill or scimiter. noun

An agricultural implement often with a curved or hooked end to the blade used for pruning or cutting thick, woody plants. noun

A medieval polearm with a similar construct, fitted to a long handle, sometimes with an L-shaped tine or a spike protruding from the side or the end of the blade for tackling the opponent; a bill noun

Written as bill-hook: a part of the knotting mechanism in a reaper-binder or baler (agricultural machinery). noun

Written as bill hook: a spiked hook used in offices and shops for hanging bills or other small papers such as receipts. noun

A long-handled saw with a curved blade noun

A medieval polearm with a similar construct, fitted to a long handle, sometimes with an L-shaped tine or a spike protruding from the side or the end of the blade for tackling the opponent; a bill

An agricultural implement often with a curved or hooked end to the blade used for pruning or cutting thick, woody plants.

Written as bill-hook: a part of the knotting mechanism in a reaper-binder or baler (agricultural machinery).

Written as bill hook: a spiked hook used in offices and shops for hanging bills or other small papers such as receipts.

Written as bill hook: a sharply pointed spike growing from the tip of the upper mandible of the hatchlings of honeyguides, used to destroy the eggs and kill the chicks of the host species.

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The word "billhook" in example sentences

Four sturdy countrymen in homespun came striding confidently, two with bows strung and slung ready for action, one shouldering a billhook, and the fourth a long, handled pikel. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I landed on my side, and the haft of the billhook jerked in my grasp and I stubbornly held on with both hands. ❋ Sarah Micklem (2009)

They spread my weight, so I can move about up there with a billhook, pollarding some vertical shoots, cutting others into pleachers, bending them over, weaving them in. ❋ Roger Deakin (2009)

What peace when I switched off the engine and resumed work with the billhook. ❋ Roger Deakin (2009)

I rise early and roust about in my workshop for the right billhook, then start up the humming grinder to hone the blade. ❋ Roger Deakin (2009)

I took the billhook, and we ran down toward the woods and thickets that marked the path of the stream where we got our drinking water. ❋ Sarah Micklem (2009)

Keith took the Parkes billhook to it and bevelled off the top. ❋ Roger Deakin (2009)

If I jabbed at him with the billhook, I might just touch him. ❋ Sarah Micklem (2009)

The priest was just behind her, and I swung the broken billhook haft and landed a two-handed wallop on one of his shins. ❋ Sarah Micklem (2009)

With a billhook in one hand and a leather glove much too large for her on the other, she was making spars, such as are used by thatchers, with great rapidity. ❋ Roger Deakin (2009)

Hazel or ash is best, an inch or two thick, sharpened with the billhook. ❋ Roger Deakin (2009)

Cutting with an upward stroke of the billhook, going with the grain, is far easier than cutting downwards, as you have to at the base of the pleacher. ❋ Roger Deakin (2009)

The billhook had snagged in a rent in the heavy fur. ❋ Sarah Micklem (2009)

I tried it myself and worried that the billhook might travel up my groin. ❋ Roger Deakin (2009)

He stepped forward and his cloak swirled over the billhook, and he wrapped the fur around the blade and yanked to pull the haft from my grasp. ❋ Sarah Micklem (2009)

It was that sort of upbringing, I now suppose, that has always led me to see guns as just tools, as part of the panoply of rural management alongside the scythe, the billhook and the castrating shears. ❋ Newmania (2007)

Keith leant each pole on a leather pad strapped to his knee and drew the old Parkes billhook towards him, guiding it on its journey, subtly twisting it to right or left as it travelled up the grain to keep the two halves exactly equal. ❋ Roger Deakin (2009)

The priest dropped the billhook and freed his left arm from the cloak and took a swipe at me openhanded, caught me on my shoulder. ❋ Sarah Micklem (2009)

In my other hand I held the broken shaft of the billhook, as long as my arm. ❋ Sarah Micklem (2009)

I cut through each stem as close as possible to the ground with a diagonal stroke of the billhook that severed the stem almost right through, but left the bark and enough connective tissue to allow the sap to flow. ❋ Roger Deakin (2009)

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