hedge-billn.
1. A bill for lopping and pruning hedges.
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hedge-bill1497
hedging-bill1497
staff-hook?1523
plashing-bill?a1549
plashing-tool?a1549
hack-hook1771
rice knife1858
splasher1868
hedge trimmer1871
splashing-bill1899
1497 in M. Oppenheim Naval Accts. & Inventories Henry VII (1896) 98 Sithes..vj, ffelling axes..xxiiij, Hegge billes..xxv.
1576 A. Fleming tr. Erasmus in Panoplie Epist. 356 Let us gett a hedgebill and fall to repayring broken fences.
1823 W. Scott Peveril I. ix. 231 The peasant-boy..with a hedge-bill in his hand.
2. A collector's name of a moth.
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1832 J. Rennie Conspectus Butterflies & Moths Brit. 220 The Hedge Bill (P[lutella] subfalcatella, Stephens).
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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n.1497- to be good so good as to
- to be good to go
- to be good with one's hands
- to be great fun
- to be great mastery
- to be great matter
- to be grounded in
- to be grown about
- to be grown up
- to be had in friendship
- to be half tack with
- to be halves
- to be happily met
- to be happy
- to be happy about
- to be happy with
- to be hard bested
- to be hard etc stead
- to be hard hit
- to be hard in early use also up
- to be hard on
- to be hard on oneself
- to be hard put
- to be hard put to
- to be hard put to it