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bill

/bɪl/
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noun

  • Any of various bladed or pointed hand weapons, originally designating an Anglo-Saxon sword, and later a weapon of infantry, especially in the 14th and 15th centuries, commonly consisting of a broad, heavy, double-edged, hook-shaped blade, with a short pike at the back and another at the top, attached to the end of a long staff.
  • A cutting instrument, with hook-shaped point, and fitted with a handle, used in pruning, etc.; a billhook.
  • Somebody armed with a bill; a billman.
  • A pickaxe, or mattock.
  • The extremity of the arm of an anchor; the point of or beyond the fluke (also called the peak).

verb

  • To dig, chop, etc., with a bill.

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