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Definition of Billhooks
1. billhook [n] - See also: billhook
Lexicographical Neighbors of Billhooks
Literary usage of Billhooks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Bulletin by Bureau of Animal Industry, United States, United States Bureau of Animal Industry, New Hampshire Forestry and Recreation Commission (1911)
"INFECTION FROM billhooks. After the hams are cut from the carcasses they are
handled entirely by means of ..."
2. The Mexican War Diary of George B. McClellan by George Brinton McClellan (1917)
"My men had hatchets, axes and billhooks—the Volunteers [had] axes, sap-forks and
billhooks. At length all was ready and much to my surprise we marched ..."
3. Henry Irving: A Record of Twenty Years at the Lyceum by Percy Hetherington Fitzgerald (1893)
"The billhooks of the watchmen in 'Much Ado About Nothing' are here. Their heads
might cheaply and conveniently have been fashioned of tin ; but at a certain ..."
4. The Dictionary of National Biography by Sidney Lee (1909)
"Wood's force, partly armed with scythes, spades, and billhooks, was joined by
other volunteers under John Walker, dissenting minister of Horwich, ..."
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