喜樂美語
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    A billhook is a hand tool with a heavy curved blade and a hooked point, used to cut branches, hedges, and brush. You pull as well as chop; the hook catches the wood so it does not spring away. Farmers and woodsmen have used it for a very long time. The “bill” is not money and is not a bird’s — though the blade does look a little like a , and that is a story people like to tell. In older English a bill was a blade on a long handle, a kind of weapon (a pike); later the same idea was used on a farm tool, and hook names that hooked tip. Other later uses of billhook were built again from other meanings of bill, but the tool you are learning is this cutting one. You will not see the word in city life; it belongs to gardens, hedges, and history books. Though actually, men also once fought with a billhook, which is why the weapon and the farm tool sit in one word.

    鉤鐮；修枝用的彎刃鉤刀

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組成From bill, an old word for a bladed pike (later a farm blade), + hook, the hooked point. That is the earliest sense, weapon and then agriculture.

同家族的字

  • billhere, the old English name for a long-handled blade — not a banknote and not a bird's beak
  • hookthe hooked point that catches a branch as you cut

原始詞典資料6 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

billhooknoun

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    engineeringgovernmentmilitaryA 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.

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    An agricultural hand tool often with a curved or hooked end to the blade used for pruning or cutting thick, woody plants.

    • 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.
    • 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.
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    literaryA part of the knotting mechanism in a reaper-binder or baler (agricultural machinery).

billhookverb

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    To use a billhook.

    • 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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資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。