Brown bill

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Brown´ bill`

A bill or halberd of the 16th and 17th centuries. See 4th Bill.

Many time, but for a sallet, my brainpan had been cleft with a brown bill.

- Shak.

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There are scant crops and few beeves in the borderland, where a man must reap his grain with sickle in one fist and brown bill in the other.

The White Company by Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan View in context

With the yew bow and cloth-yard shaft at Cressy and Agincourt--with the brown bill and pike under the brave Lord Willoughby--with culverin and demi-culverin against Spaniards and Dutchmen--with hand-grenade and sabre, and musket and bayonet, under Rodney and St.

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