billhook

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  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.
    — 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.
  3. A part of the knotting mechanism in a reaper-binder or baler (agricultural machinery). literary,often
  4. Rare form of bill hook (“spiked hook used in shops for hanging papers”). form-of,rare
  5. Rare form of bill hook (“sharply pointed spike on honeyguide hatchlings' mandibles”). form-of,rare
动词 v.
  1. 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.

词形变化

billhooks plural bill-hook alternative bill hook alternative billhooks present,singular,third-person billhooking participle,present billhooked participle,past billhooked past bill-hook alternative bill hook alternative

词汇关系

近义词
handbill pruning hook hack hacker hedging bill hedging-bill hedge bill bill broom hook block hook Yorkshire bill vine hook
相关词
brush hook crowbill hawkbill

词源

词源 1
Earliest use in weapon (and later, agricultural) sense, bill (“a bladed pike (obsolete)”) + hook; other senses formed anew from various meanings of bill.
词源 2
Earliest use in weapon (and later, agricultural) sense, bill (“a bladed pike (obsolete)”) + hook; other senses formed anew from various meanings of bill.
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