bill, billhook
(noun) a cutting tool with a sharp edge; “he used a bill to prune branches off of the tree”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
billhook (plural billhooks)
(weapons) 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
An agricultural implement often with a curved or hooked end to the blade used for pruning or cutting thick, woody plants.
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.
(ornithology) 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.
• handbill, pruning hook, hack, hacker, hedging bill, hedging-bill, hedge bill, bill, broom hook, block hook, Yorkshire bill, vine hook
billhook (third-person singular simple present billhooks, present participle billhooking, simple past and past participle billhooked)
To use a billhook
• hookbill
Source: Wiktionary
Bill"hook`, n. Etym: [Bill + hook.]
Definition: A thick, heavy knife with a hooked point, used in pruning hedges, etc. When it has a short handle, it is sometimes called a hand bill; when the handle is long, a hedge bill or scimiter.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
3 July 2025
(noun) the faculty through which the external world is apprehended; “in the dark he had to depend on touch and on his senses of smell and hearing”
According to Guinness World Records, the largest coffee press is 230 cm (7 ft 6 in) in height and 72 cm (2 ft 4 in) in diameter and was created by Salzillo Tea and Coffee (Spain) in Murcia, Spain, in February 2007. The cafetière consists of a stainless steel container, a filtering piston, and a superior lid.
