Each of them held a seven-foot billhook in his hand.    From Wordnik.com.  [Spirits White As Lightning]

My billhook is two feet shorter, and I wanted reach.    From Wordnik.com.  [saturday: shopping, playing, Venture-ing, damming, otter-ing, partying] Reference

The billhook had snagged in a rent in the heavy fur.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wildfire] Reference

He tossed the reeking billhook on to the straw in the wagon.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dancing Druids]

In his left hand he held a short axe, or, rather, a billhook.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dancing Druids]

If I jabbed at him with the billhook, I might just touch him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wildfire] Reference

‘Not me,’ said the big man, dropping the billhook on the grass.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dancing Druids]

Each of the squad was issued with either a rake, a billhook, or a shovel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sharpe's Regiment]

In my other hand I held the broken shaft of the billhook, as long as my arm.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wildfire] Reference

In his insane fury he had attempted to slash at one of my men with a billhook he carried.    From Wordnik.com.  [How I Found Livingstone] Reference

"Set up the ladder here, Joseph," he said, pointing with the billhook to indicate the place.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aunt Rachel] Reference

The rider handed the billhook to the biggest man, and the others got to their feet and stood away.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dancing Druids]

He bowed, holding the billhook to one side and resting the knuckles of his free hand on the floor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Spirits White As Lightning]

Pier struck with his billhook, and swears the iron passed through the wolf's ribs without doing harm.    From Wordnik.com.  [Three Hearts and Three Lions]

"Up thee goest, gaffer," said Joseph, handing over the little old lady's head the billhook and the saw.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aunt Rachel] Reference

I landed on my side, and the haft of the billhook jerked in my grasp and I stubbornly held on with both hands.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wildfire] Reference

His lordship decided not to hear the question, and walked on a little ahead, swinging the billhook and the saw.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aunt Rachel] Reference

Here he took the billhook and the saw from his assistant, and strode on, swinging one of the tools in each hand.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aunt Rachel] Reference

“Yes, there or thereabouts,” said Winterborne, a chop of the billhook jerking the last word into two pieces.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Woodlanders] Reference

He came slowly down the ladder and, surrendering his billhook to Joseph, advanced and proffered a tremulous white hand.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aunt Rachel] Reference

I took the billhook, and we ran down toward the woods and thickets that marked the path of the stream where we got our drinking water.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wildfire] Reference

An angry peasant made a slash at him with a billhook.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Snare] Reference

Gracechurch Street with a billhook chained to his waist.    From Wordnik.com.  [Indian Tales] Reference

He threatened them with the billhook and demanded money.    From Wordnik.com.  [ireland.com Breaking News] Reference

So I examined billhook and quarterstaff, and at last said I knew them.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Thane of Wessex] Reference

"A primitive method, and an easy one, saving the labour of billhook and axe.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Sister Teresa] Reference

Is it to bleed to death I should and I to get a tip of a billhook or a slasher?.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Irish Comedies] Reference

Shorty was armed as usual merely with the villainous billhook-kukri of his own design, while.    From Wordnik.com.  [No Man's Land] Reference

Chop, chop, chop, went Marty's little billhook with never more assiduity, till Mrs. Charmond spoke.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Woodlanders] Reference

"Yes, there or thereabouts," said Winterborne, a chop of the billhook jerking the last word into two pieces.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Woodlanders] Reference

He had thought the matter out, and having returned the ladder and billhook to their places, pursued his way homeward.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Woodlanders] Reference

Pablo, taking up the billhook and setting to work to cut off the boughs, which he did with great dexterity and rapidity.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Children of the New Forest] Reference

Tinker, returning the half-forged billhook to the fire, straightened his back and wiped the sweat from sooty brow with sooty hand.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peregrine's Progress] Reference

She’d tripped over a billhook that some foot soldier had abandoned, so I picked that up too.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wildfire] Reference