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billhooking

billhooking is the present participle and gerund of billhook.

Meaning of billhook

Verb

billhook (third-person singular simple present billhooks, present participle billhooking, simple past and past participle billhooked)

  1. To use a billhook.
    • 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.2010, Arto Paasilinna, The Year of the Hare: A Novel

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Questions about billhooking

What is billhooking the present participle and gerund of?
Billhooking is the present participle and gerund of billhook.

Words near billhooking in the dictionary

  1. billheads
  2. billholder
  3. billholders
  4. billhook
  5. billhooked
  6. billhooking
  7. billhooks
  8. Billi
  9. Billiam
  10. billiard
  11. billiard ball

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