billhook
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Topics: engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
Etymology: Earliest use in weapon (and later, agricultural) sense, bill (“a bladed pike (obsolete)”) + hook; other senses formed anew from various meanings of bill.
Compound parts: bill
hook
Inflected forms:
form: billhooks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bill-hook
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: bill hook
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: billhooks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: billhooking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: billhooked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: billhooked
pos: verb
tags: past
form: bill-hook
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: bill hook
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A medieval polearm, fitted to a long handle, sometimes with an L-shaped tine or a spike protruding from the side or the end of the blade for tackling the opponent; a bill.
pos: noun
gloss: An agricultural hand tool often with a curved or hooked end to the blade used for pruning or cutting thick, woody plants.
pos: noun
examples: I worked very hard in the copse of young ash, with my billhook and a shearing-knife; cutting out the saplings where they stooled too close together, making spars to keep for thatching, wall-crooks to drive into the cob, stiles for close sheep hurdles, and handles for rakes, and hoes, and two-bills, of the larger and straighter stuff.
With a small billhook he carefully freed the collar of the tree from twigs and patches of moss which incrusted it to a height of a foot or two above the ground, an operation comparable to the "little toilet" of the executioner's victim.
gloss: A part of the knotting mechanism in a reaper-binder or baler (agricultural machinery).
pos: noun
tags: literary
often
gloss: To use a billhook.
pos: verb
examples: Toward the end of July, Vatanen took a forestry job. It meant billhooking and chopping excessive undergrowth from the woods on the sandy ridges around Kuhmo and living in a tent with an ever more faithful, almost full- grown hare.
Synonyms: handbill
pruning hook
hack
hacker
hedging bill
hedging-bill
hedge bill
bill
broom hook
block hook
Yorkshire bill
vine hook
Related words: brush hook
crowbill
hawkbill
Translations:
lang: Albanian
word: kmesë
lang: Albanian
word: kadhë
lang: Albanian
word: kizë
lang: Azerbaijani
word: dəhrə
lang: Catalan
word: falçó
lang: Catalan
word: podall
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 鍥 /锲
roman: qiè
lang: Czech
word: kosíř
lang: Dutch
word: hiep
lang: Dutch
word: snoeimes
lang: Esperanto
word: serpo
lang: Faroese
word: krókaknívur
lang: Finnish
word: vesuri
lang: Finnish
word: kassara
lang: French
word: serpe
lang: French
word: serpette
lang: Galician
word: podón
lang: German
word: Hippe
lang: Ancient Greek
word: κρώπιον
roman: krṓpion
lang: Ancient Greek
word: βίσβη
roman: bísbē
lang: Irish
word: bileog
lang: Irish
word: corrán
lang: Irish
word: halbard
lang: Old Irish
word: fidbae
lang: Italian
word: roncola
lang: Italian
word: roncolina
lang: Japanese
word: 鉈
roman: nata
lang: Japanese
word: 鉈鎌
roman: natagama
lang: Korean
word: 나대
roman: nadae
lang: Korean
word: 낫
roman: nat
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: das
lang: Macedonian
word: сор
roman: sor
lang: Māori
word: pīhuka
lang: Māori
word: perohuka
lang: Norman
word: sèrpe
lang: Norwegian
word: løvkniv
lang: Norwegian
word: lauvkniv
lang: Polish
word: sierpak
lang: Portuguese
word: podão
lang: Portuguese
word: serpete
lang: Russian
word: сека́ч
roman: sekáč
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: kosir
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: косир
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: kosač
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: косач
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: sekač
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: секач
lang: Sicilian
word: runca
lang: Sicilian
word: rùncula
lang: Sicilian
word: runculiḍḍa
lang: Slovene
word: krivec
lang: Spanish
word: podón
lang: Spanish
word: corquete
lang: Tamil
word: வீச்சரிவாள்
roman: vīccarivāḷ
lang: Turkish
word: tahra
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: كسكی
roman: keski
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: داس
roman: das
lang: Walloon
word: såpe
lang: Walloon
word: sårpete
lang: Walloon
word: sårpea
lang: Walloon
word: fiermint
lang: Walloon
word: courbet
lang: Welsh
word: bilwg