单词 | hedging-bill |
释义 | hedging-billn. A bill with a long handle used in cutting and trimming hedges. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > hedging > [noun] > hedging implements 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) 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). < n.1497 |
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