billhook

How To Use billhook In A Sentence

• They are attacking each other with billhooks and shotguns.
• Wielding the billhook allows Heavy Billmen to hack, stab and chop if needed and being encased in anything from half to three quarter plate armour means they can shrug off considerable damage.
• The English soldiers waded into the chaos armed with hatchets and billhooks and, backed up by their own small cavalry and the threat of their longbows, succeeded in dispersing the whole French army.
• ‘Early in the morning of the 3rd of August, 1854, Rawiri and a party of his followers went out with billhooks to cut a line for the purpose of marking the boundaries of a piece of land they intended to sell to the Europeans,’ writes Wells.
• Always working with the same billhook, Keith bevelled off the ends of each ligger to make a join. Wildwood
• The man used instruments including a crowbar and something resembling a billhook to smash in the front of the machine.
• The mattresses and walls were covered in blood and the murder weapon, a bloodstained hedging billhook, lay abandoned.
• In those days, the merest suggestion that a nationalized army was under consideration by some illegitimate, foreign-born blackamoor prince or other was enough to send our gallant, free-enterprising forebears scuttling back to their moat-girded castles for the billhooks, maces, broadswords, and war hammers guaranteed them under the Second Amendment to Erik Bloodaxe's Rules of Civilized Mayhem. Stop the Government Takeover of America's Armed Forces!
• The priest dropped the billhook and freed his left arm from the cloak and took a swipe at me openhanded, caught me on my shoulder. Wildfire
• There every boat is crewed, the men armed with billhooks spear the fish and pull them thrashing from the water, as the Mattanza continues the sea turns red with blood.