Definition of billhook :
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.
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- Though the arms get warm from swinging the grub- axe or billhook, or cleaning out the ditch and plastering and smoothing the side of the mound with the spade, yet feet and ankles are chilled by the water in the ditch. - "Hodge and His Masters", Richard Jefferies.
- Then they added the great silver ladle, four heavy silver candlesticks, and a number of teaspoons to their guilty bundle, and chopped the gold handle off a cane with the billhook. - "Greene Ferne Farm", Richard Jefferies.
- The canes are cut with a billhook, one at a time; and being fastened together in faggots, are sent off to the crushing- mill on mules' backs or in carts. - "Old Jack", W.H.G. Kingston.