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forest-bills

forest-bills is the plural of forest-bill.

Meaning of forest-bill

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

Questions about forest-bills

What is forest-bills the plural of?
Forest-bills is the plural of forest-bill.

Words near forest-bills in the dictionary

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

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