| 1. | The main difference is that the bear was holding a billhook.
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| 2. | It turns gradually more northward, resembling a billhook in plan.
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| 3. | The knife is similar in design to the sickle and billhook.
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| 4. | Billhooks are almost universally made from ordinary steel of a moderate carbon content.
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| 5. | NCOs and buglers carried axes, saws and billhooks.
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| 6. | The use of a billhook is between that of a knife and an axe.
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| 7. | A tool of similar origin is the billhook.
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| 8. | They were in two leather bags, together with a billhook and bloodied gloves.
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| 9. | Sometimes confused with the heavier and straighter billhook used for cutting wood or laying hedges.
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| 10. | Some styles of billhook may have scales of hardwood or horn fitted to the handle.
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