English Explanatory Dictionary

billhook

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. 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. An agricultural hand tool often with a curved or hooked end to the blade used for pruning or cutting thick, woody plants.
  3. A part of the knotting mechanism in a reaper-binder or baler (agricultural machinery).
  4. Rare form of bill hook (“spiked hook used in shops for hanging papers”).
  5. Rare form of bill hook (“sharply pointed spike on honeyguide hatchlings' mandibles”).
verb
  1. To use a billhook.

Pronunciation

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-billhook.wav

Word forms

billhook billhooks bill-hook bill hook billhooking billhooked

Etymology

Earliest use in weapon (and later, agricultural) sense, bill (“a bladed pike (obsolete)”) + hook; other senses formed anew from various meanings of bill.

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

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