Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A long-handled billhook or brush-cutter.

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  • Away on every side stretch the angular fields, outlined by fences that are often but white, continuous mounds, and also marked by trees and shrubs that, in their earlier life, ran the gantlet of the bush-hook.

    Nature's Serial Story Edward Payson Roe 1863

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