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billhook

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bill·hook  (blhk)
n.
An implement with a curved blade attached to a handle, used especially for clearing brush and for rough pruning.
[bill + hook.]
billhook [ˈbɪlˌhʊk]
n
(Engineering / Tools) a cutting tool with a wooden handle and a curved blade terminating in a hook at its tip, used for pruning, chopping, etc Also called bill
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.billhookbillhook - a long-handled saw with a curved blade; "he used a bill to prune branches off of the tree"
bill
saw - hand tool having a toothed blade for cutting
Translations
billhook [ˈbɪlhʊk] N → podadera f, podón m
billhook [ˈbɪlˌhʊk] n → falcetto
billhook [ˈbɪlˌhʊk] n → falcetto


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Their place was taken by an immense wilderness of bamboo, which grew so thickly that we could only penetrate it by cutting a pathway with the machetes and billhooks of the Indians.
The Lost World by Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan View in context
Quasimodo then beheld distinctly surging in the Parvis a frightful herd of men and women in rags, armed with scythes, pikes, billhooks and partisans, whose thousand points glittered.
Notre-Dame de Paris by Hugo, Victor View in context
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