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	Billhook
		Billhook - This weapon originated as a cross between a broad curved knife which was hook shaped at the end and an axe.
		The Billhook was predominantly used by a Foot Soldiers.
		Skill in the use of Medieval weapons and understanding the strategy of Medieval Warfare was necessary and a played a vital part in Medieval life.
	www.middle-ages.org.uk /billhook.htm (643 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Billhook (Site not responding. Last check: )
		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.
		Billhooks would have once been made by the local smith to the user's specifications but now sizes and shapes are standardised.
		Billhooks are currently in common use by thatchers, coppicers, hurdle makers, charcoal burners and often by other traditional craftsmen, farmers and woodsmen.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Billhook (2244 words)

	Billhook - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The billhook's use as a cutting tool goes back to the Iron Age, and examples have been found in pre-roman settlements in several English counties as well as in France and Switzerland.
		Billhooks would have once been made by the local smith to the user's specifications but now sizes and shapes are standardised.
		Billhooks are currently in common use by thatchers, coppicers, hurdle makers, charcoal burners and often by other traditional craftsmen, farmers and woodsmen.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Billhook (1364 words)

	Billhook Information
		The billhook is a traditional cutting tool used mainly in European agriculture, but also common though 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.
		A billhook may vary in shape depending from which part of the UK it orginates; there are nine main types.
		When the blade from the billhook was taken and added to a long pole the weapon called a halberd was created.
	www.bookrags.com /wiki/Billhook (1331 words)

	Billhooks - Oldtools.co.uk
		Billhook by Nash, handle is a little loose with a large split along with a user drilled hole.
		The blade of this old billhook measures around 10 1/2" (264mm) long, overall the total length of this tool is 16” (406mm) long.
		Billhook blade marked A and F Parkes and Co Ltd Birmingham, also has the ministry arrow mark.
	www.oldtools.co.uk /tools/edge_tools/billhooks/billhooks.pg1.php (360 words)

	Knife Review : Kellam Billhook
		The Billhook weighs 250 g, the plastic sheath is an additional 60 g.
		The Billhook is 0.115" thick with a single grind, 0.275" wide forming an edge of around 10-12 degrees per side with a very slight polished secondary edge bevel, at 14 degrees per side.
		Onto some limbs, the bowies had better relative performance than on the lighter vegetation but the Billhook easily kept up in terms of cutting ability, was lighter, had a very nice handle and the back was thin enough to smash off some of the gnarly dried branches anyway so you could readily spare the edge.
	www.cutleryscience.com /reviews/billhook.html (664 words)

	Knotter apparatus with shearplate for rotary knife - Patent 4309051 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		During the baling operation, the leading strand of twine is held by the twine holder and extends forwardly across a twine retainer finger and a billhook and then in front of the bale.
		3, the billhook shaft 99 is positioned at angle.theta..sub.2 relative to the twine holder 63.
		As the twine holder 63 is rotated over said 30 degrees in the direction 90, the ends of the primary and secondary twine portions 20 and 43 held in the groove 91 are caused to move in the same direction and towards the twine retainer fingers 104 and 105.
	www.freepatentsonline.com /4309051.html (4701 words)

	BTCV Online Shop
		BILLHOOKS - It is advisable not to work in icy or wet conditions as good grip when using a billhook is essential.
		Double Edge Billhook - The curved blade is used for heavy cutting, and the straight one is kept very sharp for trimming.
		Newtown Billhook - This has a straighter blade and is useful for hedging.
	shop.btcv.org.uk /shop/level3/19/level (138 words)

	Pole Arms: Historical Pole Arms, Bardiche,Battle Bardiche ,Broad Bill,Fauchard (Fork) Gisarme,Gisarme ,Lochaber Pole ...
		The Bill, derived from the common billhook, was used all over Europe from the 10th century until late in the 16th century.
		The Gisarme: First mentioned in texts of the 12th century and continuing in use up to the 17th century.
		Often identified with the bill, it seems to have had a totally different origin and to be an offspring of the axe, not the billhook, and may be identified with the crescent shaped double-socketed axe.
	www.aurorahistoryboutique.com /ahb_poleArms.htm (363 words)

	Garden Billhooks - Getting Hooked
		However, the distinguishing point is that the handle of the billhook is much shorter than that of a normal axe.
		A billhook can be used to dig up the garden, to prune big trees, to clear up the lawn and for several other purposes.
		A billhook is also greatly used for the purpose of hedge laying.
	www.greathomeimprovements.com /Jan06home/handyman/garden_billhooks_getting_hooked.php (885 words)

	Knife Review : Kellam Billhook (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Billhook came very sharp, easily push shaving, scoring 122 +/- 17 g on light thread and push cutting 3/8" hemp at 31-35 lbs, which is actually higher on both counts than many light utility folders evaluated, let alone blades meant to actually do serious wood working.
		The Billhook was used alongside a straight handled Battle Mistress for light weed and small wood cutting.
		The Battle Mistress was freshly sharpened, readily hair popping, and even though the Billhook was not quite at that level, it did hook through the weeds nicer and was lighter in hand, it didn't take long to realize that the Billhook was a much more efficient tool.
	www.physics.mun.ca /~sstamp/knives/billhook.html (664 words)

	Conservation Volunteers \| tool information \| billhooks
		To use the billhook make a swinging motion whilst holding the tool in one hand.
		If you fall throw the billhook to one side so as not to fall on it.
		The safety tips are the same as for the billhook - just remember to keep further away from other people.
	students.bugs.bham.ac.uk /BUCV/billhooks.html (435 words)

	eBay.co.uk - billhook, bill hook, slasher, elwell items at low prices (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Robert Sorby Slasher / Billhook / Reaper / Sickle
		Scythe / Reaper by Tyzack and Turner (Sickle / Billhook)
		Cabbage root farm knife by Mountfield and sons billhook
	search.ebay.co.uk /billhook_W0QQfsooZ2QQfsopZ19 (316 words)

	Billhooks and sickles - Appropriate technology: Journey to Forever
		It was also fitted with a socket for a handle, like the old one above, but the pitch was wrong, upsetting the balance, so we cut it down to a tang, flattened it, and set it into a strong wooden handle secured with a through-bolt (right).
		The flsmith in his village didn't follow the template, but he let it influence him: the result is a something halfway between a billhook and a bolo, the traditional Filipino cane-cutting knife.
		We fitted it with a two-handed grip a bit like the hilt of a Japanese sword: shaped hardwood split in two, with recesses cut in each half for the tang, secured with a through-bolt and a ferrule at each end.
	journeytoforever.org /at_billhook.html (1201 words)

	Billhooks - Oldtools.co.uk
		An old billhook marked to blade S and J Kitchin Sheffield 1955, H/1368, also has the military arrow.
		This old billhook measures 15 1/2" (395mm) long overall, blade to ferule measures 9 3/8" (237mm) long.
		An old billhook marked Fussells improved This old tool measures 16 1/2" (419mm) long overall, blade to ferule measures 10" (250mm) long.
	www.oldtools.co.uk /tools/edge_tools/billhooks/billhooks.pg3.php (335 words)

	Elmer Roush, Billhooks (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Eventually giving rise to the name billhook pronounced with a silent 'h' it has proved to be a multipurpose tool that has been used for practically any purpose that a sharp edged implement can be put to and is still used throughout Europe today.
		Before World War ll no farm hand would have been without a billhook of some description and a hundred years ago the range of shapes and sizes was extraordinary, practically every flsmith and foundry producing their own version each with its own name like the Northwich or the Suffolk reflecting the place of origin.
		English billhooks seemed to have favoured the carved handle fitted to each side of an extension of the blade whereas the French seemed to go in more for a turned handle perhaps reflecting different attitudes towards handle replacement and the occasional demand for a longer handle.
	www.metcalferoush.com /elmer/html/billhooks.html (406 words)

	Steward Community Woodland - How to make mauls and mallets
		Now working at the narrowest end of the log, use an axe or billhook to remove the wood down to the cut.
		As well as a billhook or sharp knife and a saw.
		Use the billhook or knife to whittle one end of the handle down to just fit inside the hole.
	www.stewardwood.org /resources/DIYmallet.htm (530 words)

	Kwapena v The State [1978] PNGLR 316 (1 September 1978)
		The billhook held by the appellant is not of use against a shot-gun unless one gets at close quarters.
		275 was not available to him because he had used excessive force, that in attacking the deceased with the billhook he intended to cause grievous bodily harm, that he attacked the deceased before the necessity of preserving himself arose and that he did not retreat as far as was practicable.
		The billhook was the nearest weapon to hand and its use with such deadly effect must have been intuitive.
	www.worldlii.org /pg/cases/PNGLR/1978/316.html (3073 words)

	Bill (weapon) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Bill's effiency as a close combat weapon meant it was commonly used by 15th and 16th century English infantrymen.
		Descended from agricultural billhooks and the pollaxe, the bill was a chopping blade with several spiking projections mounted on a staff of six or seven feet.
		The blade almost universally had one pronounced spike straight off the top like a spear head, in addition to a hook mounted on the 'reverse' side of the blade.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bill_(weapon) (409 words)

	OldTools Archive -- message 79567
		Accordingly, there was a lot of work involved in planting, maintaining, trimming, etc., such hedges and the billhook played a roll in that.
		Many/most hedge type plants can be grown by simply cutting a small twig/branch off a living hedge and sticking it in the ground to root and grow; my next door neighbor grew a hedgeline along his driveway by doing exactly that with cuttings from a single plant.
		Chris is correct about the billhook also being used to make hurdles, but that's a whole nother story.
	www.frontier.iarc.uaf.edu /~cswingle/archive/get.phtml?message_id=79567 (241 words)

	Dagorhir Bulletin Board : Billhook
		I expect that it is going to have at least haft padding or higher level of cushioning (just in case of accidental contact), particularly on the "outside" of the hook.
		Just in case anyone cares, a billhook or shield hook was used to pull a shield out of position or the fighter off balance.
		Personally, the billhooks that I've seen have been separate, both to allow them to be tested at a lower severity level as well as to limit the maintenance issue.
	www.dagorhir.com /cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=4&t=000699 (1827 words)

	Sheath for billhook - British Blades :: Custom Knife Making
		I believe there is a picture somewhere of a leather billhook sheath made by a member here.
		Here's a holder that was made for carrying a billhook, although it's not protecting the blade.
		The design I saw was a leather sheath where the billhook was put in blade edge first, and then a leather flap was presstudded over the spine, keeping it all protected.
	www.britishblades.com /forums/showthread.php?t=8698 (981 words)

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		Billhooks You must take care to avoid the sharp blade.
		You must wear gloves when sharpening a billhook, and you must move the sharpening stone away from the edge, not into it.
		You must carry a billhook down by your side, and ideally in the billhook box.
	www.lcv.org.uk /howto/fire.doc (816 words)

	Definition of billhook - Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
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