billhooks
Curved pruning blades
A billhook is a cutting tool with a curved blade and a hooked tip, used for pruning, trimming hedges, and cutting woody vegetation.
The design allows both slicing and pulling motions.
Billhooks have regional variations in blade shape and have been agricultural implements for centuries: He trimmed the hedgerow with a billhook.
Flat cutting edge
- handlePart for gripping
- cuttingDividing via sharp edge
- slashingCutting with force
- pruningCutting vegetation for health
hedging · coppicing · lopping · tang · edge · sharpening · whetstone · honing
Managed dense woodland
- woodlandForested land area
- brushBristled cleaning tool
- brashOffensively self-assertive
- undergrowthLow forest vegetation
thicket · scrub · clearing · firewood · faggots · hurdles · stakes · hazel
Low-status agricultural laborer
- medievalOf the Middle Ages
- agriculturalOf farming practices
- implementTool or enact
- harvestGathering mature crops
feudal · tithe · manor · serf · reaping · sickle · scythe · vintage
blade
Flat cutting edge
pruning · hedging · coppicing · lopping · tang · edge · sharpening · whetstone · honing · curved
coppice
Managed dense woodland
undergrowth · thicket · scrub · clearing · firewood · faggots · hurdles · stakes · hazel · willow
peasant
Low-status agricultural laborer
- medievalOf the Middle Ages
- agriculturalOf farming practices
- implementTool or enact
harvest · feudal · tithe · manor · serf · reaping · sickle · scythe · vintage · traditional
vineyard
Grape-growing estate
training · tendril · cane · spur · cordon · trellis · canopy · winegrowing · harvest · vintner
Yorkshire
Historic English county
Kent · Newtown · Stafford · pattern · English · French · Italian · machete · fascine · variation