Machete vs Billhook - What's the difference?
machete | billhook |
A sword-like tool used for cutting large plants with a chopping motion. A machete's blade is usually 50 to 65 centimeters (cm) long, and up to three millimeters (mm) thick.
To cut or chop with a machete.
To hack or chop crudely with a blade other than a machete.
An agricultural implement often with a curved or hooked end to the blade used for pruning or cutting thick, woody plants.
*1869 , Richard D. Blackmore,
*:I worked very hard in the copse of young ash, with my billhook and a shearing-knife; cutting out the saplings where they stooled too close together, making spars to keep for thatching, wall-crooks to drive into the cob, stiles for close sheep hurdles, and handles for rakes, and hoes, and two-bills, of the larger and straighter stuff.
*1887 , Hardy, The Woodlanders , :
*:With a small billhook he carefully freed the collar of the tree from twigs and patches of moss which incrusted it to a height of a foot or two above the ground, an operation comparable to the "little toilet" of the executioner's victim.
(weapons) A medieval polearm with a similar construct, fitted to a long handle, sometimes with an L-shaped tine or a spike protruding from the side or the end of the blade for tackling the opponent; a bill
Written as bill-hook: a part of the knotting mechanism in a reaper-binder or baler (agricultural machinery).
Written as bill hook: a spiked hook used in offices and shops for hanging bills or other small papers such as receipts.
To use a billhook
* 2010 , Arto Paasilinna, The Year of the Hare: A Novel
*:Toward the end of July, Vatanen took a forestry job. It meant billhooking and chopping excessive undergrowth from the woods on the sandy ridges around Kuhmo and living in a tent with an ever more faithful, almost full- grown hare.
As nouns the difference between machete and billhook
is that machete is a sword-like tool used for cutting large plants with a chopping motion. A machete's blade is usually 50 to 65 centimeters (cm) long, and up to three millimeters (mm) thick while billhook is an agricultural implement often with a curved or hooked end to the blade used for pruning or cutting thick, woody plants.As verbs the difference between machete and billhook
is that machete is to cut or chop with a machete while billhook is to use a billhook.machete
English
(wikipedia machete)Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* boloSee also
* bolo * cleaver * golok (Indonesian) * knife * hatchet * parangVerb
(machet)- After some hours of intense work, we had macheted a path through the jungle to the bank of the river.
- You can't just machete about with a rapier and expect to succeed; you need to thrust properly.
