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单词 hedging-bill
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hedging-billn.

Etymology: bill n.1 4.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈhedging-bill.
A bill with a long handle used in cutting and trimming hedges.
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hedge-bill1497
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1497 in M. Oppenheim Naval Accts. & Inventories Henry VII (1896) 116 Ffelling axes..xxx, Heggyng billes..xxiiij.
?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. iiii An husbande must haue an axe, a hatchet, a hedgyngbyll.
1669 J. Worlidge Dict. Rusticum in Systema Agric. A Bill, is an Edge-tool at the end of a stale or handle; if short, then it is called a Hand-bill; if long, then a Hedging-bill.
1712 J. James tr. A.-J. Dézallier d'Argenville Theory & Pract. Gardening 173 Cutting the Palisade..with the Hedging-Bill.
1839 T. De Quincey 2nd Paper on Murder in Blackwood's Mag. Nov. 667/1 One author contends..for a hedging-bill.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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