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forest-bill

forest-bill noun: a bill-hook used by woodsmen.

Noun

forest-bill (plural forest-bills)

  1. (obsolete) A bill-hook used by woodsmen.
    • the third brother him did sore assay, / And droue at him with all his might and maine / A forrest bill, which both his hands did straine […]1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Forms of forest-bill

pluralforest-bills

Questions about forest-bill

What does forest-bill mean?
Forest-bill means a bill-hook used by woodsmen.
What part of speech is forest-bill?
Forest-bill is a noun.
What is the plural of forest-bill?
The plural of forest-bill is forest-bills.

Words near forest-bill in the dictionary

  1. forest stars
  2. forest starwort
  3. forest steppe
  4. forest steppes
  5. forest whites
  6. forest-bill
  7. forest-bills
  8. forest-blue
  9. forest-blues
  10. forest-born
  11. Foresta

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