billhook

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim 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.
2. isim An agricultural hand tool often with a curved or hooked end to the blade used for pruning or cutting thick, woody plants.

   “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.”

3. isim A part of the knotting mechanism in a reaper-binder or baler (agricultural machinery).
4. isim Rare form of bill hook (“spiked hook used in shops for hanging papers”).
5. isim Rare form of bill hook (“sharply pointed spike on honeyguide hatchlings' mandibles”).
6. fiil To use a billhook.

   “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.”