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billhook

  1. sirppi, vesuri, kassara, saha.

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vesuri, kassara An agricultural implement often with a curved or hooked end to the blade used for pruning or cutting thick, woody plants.
1869, Richard D. Blackmore, s:Lorna Doone|Lorna Doone, s:Lorna Doone/Chapter 38|chapter 38

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.
1887, Hardy, The Woodlanders, s:The Woodlanders/Chapter XIX|chapter 19:
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.
puhekieltä A medieval polearm with a similar construct, 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
Written as bill-hook: a part of the knotting mechanism in a reaper-binder or baler (agricultural machinery).
Written as bill hook: a spiked hook used in offices and shops for hanging bills or other small papers such as receipts.
To use a billhook
2010, Arto Paasilinna, The Year of the Hare: A Novel
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.

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