Definitions for "Billhook"
Keywords:  prune, scimiter, settlers, hooks, blade
A thick, heavy knife with a hooked point, used in pruning hedges, etc. When it has a short handle, it is sometimes called a hand bill; when the handle is long, a hedge bill or scimiter.
a long-handled saw with a curved blade; "he used a bill to prune branches off of the tree"
The billhook is a traditional cutting tool used mainly in European agriculture, but also common through out most of the world where it was introduced by European settlers, e.g South America and parts of Asia, or developed independently e.g. in Japan and West Africa. The blade is usually made from a high carbon steel in varying weights and lengths, with an increasingly strong curve towards the end. The blade is generally sharpened only on the inside of the curve, but double edged billhooks, or broom hooks, also have a rectangular secondary blade on the back.