billhook

n. 钩镰

发音

US

词形变化

billhooks 复数 billhooks billhooked billhooking billhooks 三单 billhooking 现在分词 billhooked 过去式 billhooked 过去分词

别名

bill hook hedging bill hedging-bill bill-hook

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A medieval polearm, 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.

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  2. 2.

    An agricultural hand tool often with a curved or hooked end to the blade used for pruning or cutting thick, woody plants.

  3. 3.

    A part of the knotting mechanism in a reaper-binder or baler (agricultural machinery).

    文学
  4. 4.

    Rare form of bill hook (“spiked hook used in shops for hanging papers”).

    罕用
  5. 5.

    Rare form of bill hook (“sharply pointed spike on honeyguide hatchlings' mandibles”).

    罕用
v.
  1. 1.

    To use a billhook.

词汇关系

名词

同义词 1

bill

上位词 1

hand tool

词源

Earliest use in weapon (and later, agricultural) sense, bill (“a bladed pike (obsolete)”) + hook; other senses formed anew from various meanings of bill.

来源：wiktionary