How to pronounce “billhook”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• (weaponry) A medieval polearm, fitted to a long handle, sometimes with an L-shaped tine or a spike protruding from the side or the end of the blade for tackling the opponent; a bill.
• An agricultural hand tool often with a curved or hooked end to the blade used for pruning or cutting thick, woody plants.
• (often written as bill-hook) A part of the knotting mechanism in a reaper-binder or baler (agricultural machinery).
• Rare form of bill hook (“spiked hook used in shops for hanging papers”).
• Rare form of bill hook (“sharply pointed spike on honeyguide hatchlings' mandibles”).
• [Verb]
• To use a billhook.

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