billhook

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  • All these tropical forests are absolutely impenetrable, except to axe and billhook, and after a trail has been laboriously opened, it needs to be cut once or twice a year, so rapid is the growth of vegetation. 

  • It was the axes of their fathers that felled the trees, to sell for fuel, and the billhooks of their mothers that hacked away the bushes and grubbed up their very roots to burn on the household cooking hole. 

  • That and a billhook stuck in his belt were his only weapons. 

  • They grow perfectly well in hedges, and in the days of the billhook you could preserve the saplings.

  • The main difference is that the bear was holding a billhook.

  • It turns gradually more northward, resembling a billhook in plan.

  • The edge of a billhook is not bevelled to a very narrow angle to avoid binding in green wood.

  • The hoe and the billhook refer to agriculture and winegrowing.

  • A tool of similar origin is the billhook.

  • Another very close relation is the meat cleaver -- sizes and handle-fixing of these are often very similar to billhooks.

  • The man, who was in his sixties and armed with a billhook, had rescued an armed marksman and his companions from marauding wolves after their gunpowder had been depleted.

  • Like the billhook they were used for cutting saplings (e.g. willow, hazel or chestnut) that were bundled up to make fascines or woven into hurdles, or gabions.

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