billhook

(Tiếng Anh)

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

Verb

To use a billhook.

Từ nguyên (Tiếng Anh)

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

Từ đồng nghĩa

bill

reaphook

scythe

shears

sickle

slasher

bill hook

pruning hook

fascine knife

pruning knife

Bản dịch

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serpe

snoeimes

serpette

podall

flax

podão

podadera

ébranchoir

falcetto

roncola

falcis