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billhooks
n. (plural of billhook English)
Usage examples of "billhooks".
Marines, stripped to the waist, took axes and billhooks from the villagers and went to the woods where tree after tree was felled and dragged back to the fort for fuel and barricades.
Fatigue parties took axes and billhooks back to the forest to cut firewood.
On the walls were arrayed hammers, saws, axes, adzes, billhooks, files, awls, and gouges, and wooden boxes of nails were stacked on the floor.
The first row were making holes with shovels, hoes, billhooks, and sticks.
There were camp kettles to find, billhooks to issue, mules to steal from the militia stable, and all had to be done in a hurry because Sharpe knew he must be away from this place before any orders arrived from London.