bill-hook

“See here the bones;” and another, “See here the clothes;” and then the first struck in again, and said, “A rusty bill-hook!”

The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices 2007

He worked later than they did, and, one evening at dusk, was left working alone, with his bill-hook in his hand.

The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices 2007

He has, ever since, been there, peeping in at me in my torment; revealing to me by snatches, in the pale lights and slatey shadows where he comes and goes, bare-headed — a bill-hook, standing edgewise in his hair.

The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices 2007

He knew, before he threw the bill-hook, where it had alighted — I say, had alighted, and not, would alight; for, to his clear perception the thing was done before he did it.

The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices 2007

He could see, indeed, that they were not hers, for one was a spade, large and heavy, and another was a bill-hook which she could only have used with both hands.

The Woodlanders 2006

Marty pursued her occupation for a few minutes, then suddenly laying down the bill-hook, she jumped up and went to the back of the room, where she opened a door which disclosed a staircase so whitely scrubbed that the grain of the wood was wellnigh sodden away by such cleansing.

The Woodlanders 2006

The young woman laid down the bill-hook for a moment and examined the palm of her right hand, which, unlike the other, was ungloved, and showed little hardness or roughness about it.

The Woodlanders 2006

With a bill-hook in one hand and a leather glove, much too large for her, on the other, she was making spars, such as are used by thatchers, with great rapidity.

The Woodlanders 2006

“We have been very sadly for a long time now,” said the farmer, as he knocked at his own porch door with the handle of his bill-hook.

Mary Anerley Richard Doddridge 2004

My dear sir, I can not help commending your prudence in guarding the entrance to your manor; but not in this employment of a bill-hook.

Mary Anerley Richard Doddridge 2004