forest-bill

English

Noun

forest-bill (plural forest-bills)

1. (obsolete) A bill-hook used by woodsmen.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     the third brother him did sore assay, / And droue at him with all his might and maine / A forrest bill, which both his hands did straine […]

See also

• wood-bill