| 单词 | billhook |
| 例句 | Hedgelaying is winter’s work, done while the fields are fallow, but even in the chill, one sweats with the effort of swinging axes and billhooks. Maintaining a competitive hedge 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z Near the front of the seven hikers is a Welshman carrying a billhook, a backpack almost the same size as him, and what appears to all intents and purposes to be a briefcase. ‘Who knows what we’ll find next?’ Journey to the heart of Mozambique’s hidden forest 2017-03-25T04:00:00Z Samuel likes harvesting tobacco because “you get to use a large knife called a billhook.” Kids experience hands-on history 2013-11-02T03:41:17Z It was frequently necessary to cut down with axes and billhooks the tangled undergrowth and creepers that wove themselves amid the trunks of the trees, in order to make room for the canoe to pass. The Fire-Gods A Tale of the Congo 2012-03-26T02:00:32.267Z The Norman could conquer our billhooks, but not our tongues; and hard they tried it for many a long year by law and proclamation. The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages 2012-02-17T03:00:30.347Z Watch Tim Radford — in dreadlocks, just 36, the future of the sport — wielding his billhook blade and laying into his section of brush like the queen’s own tree surgeon. Maintaining a competitive hedge 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z "Keep them to yourself, or, by George, we'll take 'em off with a billhook!" Chronicles of Martin Hewitt 2011-10-24T02:00:16.617Z Surely no billhook or axe of woodsman has ever come near it since first it began to grow. The Cruise of the Land-Yacht "Wanderer" Thirteen Hundred Miles in my Caravan 2011-10-11T02:01:13.517Z Then they added the great silver ladle, four heavy silver candlesticks, and a number of teaspoons to their guilty bundle, and chopped the gold handle off a cane with the billhook. Greene Ferne Farm 2011-08-14T02:00:22.210Z He raced up the meadow and found the labourer, with his thick white leather gloves and billhook, putting thorn bushes in the gaps, which no one had made so much as Bevis himself. Bevis The Story of a Boy 2011-08-13T02:00:28.377Z But now they chop and slash away without remorse, and the young forest-tree rising up with a promise of future beauty falls before the billhook. The Gamekeeper At Home Sketches of Natural History and Rural Life 2011-08-04T02:00:21.507Z Percy Houghton had brought his father's hedging-gloves and a billhook, so, leaving Anthony as sentry by the tree, David, with the aid of the boys, repaired the hedge. For the School Colours 2011-04-28T02:00:12.693Z What a noble tree an elm is, if its branches are spared by the billhook of pruner or axe of woodman! The Cruise of the Land-Yacht "Wanderer" Thirteen Hundred Miles in my Caravan 2011-10-11T02:01:13.517Z There was a small iron gate at the end of the plantation walk, and this the gardener opened for his master to pass through, closing it after him, and sticking the billhook in his breast. Thereby Hangs a Tale Volume One As Mark cut them down, some ash, some willow, and a few alder, Bevis stripped off the twigs with a billhook, and shortened them to the proper length. Bevis The Story of a Boy 2011-08-13T02:00:28.377Z When he cut a hedge, for instance, Iden used to have the great bushes that bore unusually fine May bloom saved from the billhook, that they might flower in the spring. Amaryllis at the Fair Then we got up the Government surveyor for the district, and to it we went with billhook and axe, theodolite and chain, fixing the boundaries and dimensions of our slice of forest. Brighter Britain! (Volume 1 of 2) or Settler and Maori in Northern New Zealand Their weapons included fowling-pieces, old matchlocks, muskets taken from the militia, pistols, sabres, scythes, hatchets, billhooks, and even ploughshares. The Huguenots in France I dare say, if we were to take billhooks and cut and hack away the branches, we should find it soon enough.” Crown and Sceptre A West Country Story Knight hurled and hurtled against knight, bowmen shot their short Welsh arrows, and men-at-arms thrust and maimed and slashed with the great billhooks and spears. King Arthur's Knights The Tales Re-told for Boys & Girls His lordship decided not to hear the question, and walked on a little ahead, swinging the billhook and the saw. Aunt Rachel “Strong man cut down trees, not strong man cut off branches,” said Pablo, taking up the billhook and setting to work to cut off the boughs, which he did with great dexterity and rapidity. The Children of the New Forest But though they were landed there was little more to be done, unless they had been provided with billhooks to clear the way. Middy and Ensign X. was violated by four soldiers, who broke in the door of her room with the help of a billhook. The New York Times Current History, A Monthly Magazine The European War, March 1915 Mayne had stuck the billhook of his section at the back of his knapsack, and the bullet struck it and flattened upon it. Deeds that Won the Empire Historic Battle Scenes Here he took the billhook and the saw from his assistant, and strode on, swinging one of the tools in each hand. Aunt Rachel With the fall of the billhooks fell solemnity, and men, women and children ran wildly hither and thither, shouting, singing, and breaking out into rough dances. Secret Bread These tools—hoe, billhook, and cutting knives—were excavated at Jamestown. New Discoveries at Jamestown Site of the First Successful English Settlement in America That and a billhook stuck in his belt were his only weapons. King Olaf's Kinsman A Story of the Last Saxon Struggle against the Danes in the Days of Ironside and Cnut The wood from Monvilliers to Bazeilles, but the French have been forestalled; they find the Bavarians cutting the underwood with their billhooks. Notable Events of the Nineteenth Century Great Deeds of Men and Nations and the Progress of the World He came slowly down the ladder and, surrendering his billhook to Joseph, advanced and proffered a tremulous white hand. Aunt Rachel Then Melchisedec Baragwaneth bent slowly down, holding the Neck towards the ground, and all the labourers bowed low over their billhooks. Secret Bread A part of it she had cleared with a billhook, and since then Madcap had trodden a rough pathway with her frequent goings and comings. Lady Good-for-Nothing "A primitive method, and an easy one, saving the labour of billhook and axe." Sister Teresa Cutting away the bushes with his billhook, the woodman next swings the cumbrous grub-axe, whose wide edge clears the earth from the larger roots. The Amateur Poacher "Set up the ladder here, Joseph," he said, pointing with the billhook to indicate the place. Aunt Rachel Then Noah stood forward in his majesty, Shouldering the golden billhook, wherewithal He wont to cut his way, when tangled in The matted hayes. Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume II. With billhooks and choppers the party winds up the wood paths, "the Professor" first, walking slowly, and pointing out to you his pet bits of rock-cleavage, or ivied trunk, or nest of wild strawberry plants. The Life of John Ruskin So I examined billhook and quarterstaff, and at last said I knew them. A Thane of Wessex In the end, after several unsuccessful skirmishes, Caesar armed his marines with long billhooks, instructing them to strike at the halyards of the Gallic vessels as they swept past. Early Britain—Roman Britain His lordship was followed by Joseph Beaker, who bore the saw and the billhook, and the old nobleman was evidently somewhat fatigued, and carried the ladder with difficulty. Aunt Rachel Is it to bleed to death I should and I to get a tip of a billhook or a slasher? New Irish Comedies These bands of wild, half-clad kernes, armed with pike and billhook, might be brave indeed, but could do nothing against the disciplined soldiers of the Parliament. Friends, though divided A Tale of the Civil War On that they gave me a woodman's billhook, and a seax,iii such as the churls wear, and one thrust a good ash, iron-shod quarterstaff into my hands. A Thane of Wessex The batmen were sent out with a limbered cart, some smoke shell and the total establishment of billhooks, and forbidden to return without sufficient material for bedsteads, window-shutters, bookshelves and chairs. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, December 5, 1917 "Up thee goest, gaffer," said Joseph, handing over the little old lady's head the billhook and the saw. Aunt Rachel "Yes, there or thereabouts," said Winterborne, a chop of the billhook jerking the last word into two pieces. The Woodlanders Their place was taken by an immense wilderness of bamboo, which grew so thickly that we could only penetrate it by cutting a pathway with the machetes and billhooks of the Indians. The Lost World They were for the most part men between twenty and thirty, rough and strongly built, and armed with billhooks and heavy bludgeons, two or three of them carrying guns. Through the Fray A Tale of the Luddite Riots The hands are gloved in leather mits with no fingers; in them the hedger holds his light, sharp billhook, shaped much like the knife of the forest tribes of Southern India. The Naturalist on the Thames When next I met him it was in Gracechurch Street with a billhook chained to his waist. Indian Tales He had thought the matter out, and having returned the ladder and billhook to their places, pursued his way homeward. The Woodlanders Thus bellows roared and hammers rang until the sun was high and the Tinker, returning the half-forged billhook to the fire, straightened his back and wiped the sweat from sooty brow with sooty hand. Peregrine's Progress In his insane fury he had attempted to slash at one of my men with a billhook he carried. How I Found Livingstone; travels, adventures, and discoveres in Central Africa, including an account of four months' residence with Dr. Livingstone, by Henry M. Stanley Let some of the men take billhooks and axes down with them, and cut poles. Won By the Sword : a tale of the Thirty Years' War An angry peasant made a slash at him with a billhook. The Snare Quasimodo then beheld distinctly surging in the Parvis a frightful herd of men and women in rags, armed with scythes, pikes, billhooks and partisans, whose thousand points glittered. Notre-Dame De Paris While with every stroke the bill took on form and semblance, growing more and more into what a billhook should be. Peregrine's Progress Then there should be a mattock and a shovel apiece for every waggon, and on every beast of burden a billhook and an axe, always useful to the owner and sometimes a boon to all. Cyropaedia: the education of Cyrus All benches are crowded; in the dusky galleries, duskier with unwashed heads, is a strange 'coruscation,'—of impromptu billhooks. The French Revolution Meanwhile, Saint-Antoine, in groups and troops, is continually arriving; wetted, sulky; with pikes and impromptu billhooks: driven thus far by popular fixed-idea. The French Revolution A soldier pointed out to the king a billhook which he had seized on the person of the vagabond. Notre-Dame De Paris |
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