[
UK
/bˈɪlhʊk/
]
NOUN
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a cutting tool with a sharp edge
he used a bill to prune branches off of the tree
How To Use billhook In A Sentence
- The priest was just behind her, and I swung the broken billhook haft and landed a two-handed wallop on one of his shins. Wildfire
- If I jabbed at him with the billhook, I might just touch him. Wildfire
- Keith took the Parkes billhook to it and bevelled off the top. Wildwood
- 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. Wildfire
- On the lawn, Mr. McLintock was lining up all the rest of the outside workers and making sure each of them had a billhook or a sharp hoe. THE LIVES OF CHRISTOPHER CHANT
- The English soldiers waded into the chaos armed with hatchets and billhooks and, backed up by their own small cavalry and the threat of their longbows, succeeded in dispersing the whole French army.
- With many happy memories of his days with the council, one that Paddy distinctly remembers was: ‘One day this woman pulled up in a big car while I was up the Cut Road with a billhook.’
- 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. Wildfire
- I landed on my side, and the haft of the billhook jerked in my grasp and I stubbornly held on with both hands. Wildfire
- 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. A Caregiver's Homage To The Very Old