bill-hooks

They would climb the trees early in the morning, make deep cuts on the crown of the trees with their sharp bill-hooks, and tie their pots beneath to collect the sap juice that oozed from the cuttings.

The Tale of a Broken Pot Jan 2008

They would climb the trees early in the morning, make deep cuts on the crown of the trees with their sharp bill-hooks, and tie their pots beneath to collect the sap juice that oozed from the cuttings.

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He could hear the Sixth Division hacking at branches with bill-hooks and bayonets, making their fires, and the battle, at last, was truly over.

Sharpe's Sword Cornwell, Bernard 1983

He could hear the Sixth Division hacking at branches with bill-hooks and bayonets, making their fires, and the battle, at last, was truly over.

Sharpe's Sword Cornwell, Bernard 1983

They carry bill-hooks to cut their way through the thickets, and bring along a tribe of native dogs, which do good service -- a cross between a collie and a jackal, veteran poachers, which prowl through the scrub, winding a boar at any distance.

In the Tail of the Peacock Isabel Savory

First, negroes with bill-hooks to clear the way; then the van-guard; then the main body, interspersed with negroes bearing boxes of ball-cartridges; then the rear-guard, with many more negroes, bearing camp-equipage, provisions, and new rum, surnamed "kill-devil," and appropriately followed by a sort of palanquin for the disabled.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 31, May, 1860 Various

The next operation is to cut down all the brushwood and smaller growths with bill-hooks, and then the rest of the scrub is felled with axes, and allowed to lie until quite dry, when it is burned off.

Australia, The Dairy Country Australia. Dept. of External Affairs

"After this, they tinkled their bill-hooks, fired a volley, and gave three cheers; which being answered by the rangers, the clamor ended, and the rebels dispersed with the rising sun."

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 31, May, 1860 Various

In cutting the cinnamon sticks for peeling, as the Europeans do it twice a year, there is always risk of losing much valuable young wood, which is destroyed in slashing into the bushes with _catties_ (bill-hooks) to take out that which is in a fit state for peeling, all of which is so much loss from the next cutting; and on this ground I should be inclined to advocate cutting once a year.

The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. P. L. Simmonds

And the phalanx, armed with scythes, bill-hooks, axes, hoes, and guns, reunited in the square before the church.

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