billhook

Significado (Inglês)

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. A spiked hook used in offices and shops for hanging bills or other small papers such as receipts.
5. (written as bill hook) A sharply pointed spike growing from the tip of the upper mandible of the hatchlings of honeyguides, used to destroy the eggs and kill the chicks of the host species.

Verb

To use a billhook

Sinônimos

bill

reaphook

scythe

shears

sickle

slasher

bill hook

pruning hook

fascine knife

pruning knife

Etimologia (Inglês)

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