A second worker equipped with a beet hook ( a short-handled tool between a billhook and a sickle ) followed behind, and would lift the beet and swiftly chop the crown and leaves from the root with a single action.
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"' Vanguard "': Vanguards use two-handed weapons with a long reach, which include greatswords, claymores, zweihanders, thrusting spears, forks, brandistocks, bardiches, billhooks, halberds, and pole hammers.
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Poets of the time commonly traded humorous insults, and the Hanmer poet Dafydd ap Edmund wrote that Guto was not good-looking and had a nose like a billhook, while another poet described him as having the alarming features of a bear.
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Another is that it comes from the customs regulating which firewood local people could take from common land; they were allowed to take any branches that they could reach with a billhook or a shepherd's crook ( used to hook sheep ).
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In the Australian and Canadian armies, on special occasions some battalions may still parade a ceremonial detachment of assault pioneers in historical uniforms wearing leather aprons, gauntlets and gaiters, and carrying the various tools of their trade such as felling axes, crosscut saws, hatchets and billhooks, picks and shovels.
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Incorporating many of Jacob Behel's innovations as found in his development of the " billhook " knotter in 1864, Appleby later sold the patent around the year 1877 to William Deering who began the manufacturing and exploited the practicability of Appleby's twine knotter into a commercially profitable reaper-binder.
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The municipality s heraldic language : Quarterly per fess abased, first argent a crown charged with a cross bottonn�e azure, second gules a crozier with sudarium and a hoe per saltire of the first, third gules a billhook palewise of the first, fourth argent a fleur-de-lis of the second.
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A "'Celurit "'or "'Clurit "'is generally a sickle ( sometimes other variants include billhook ) with a pronounced crescent-blade patterns which curves more than half a circle and a long handle, is widely used for agricultural purposes and also in Pencak Silat.
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Some billhooks ( for example the Kent pattern ) have a single-bevelled blade, available in both right-and left-handed versions, others ( such as the Machynlleth pattern ) have dished blades ( concave one side and convex the other ), or a pronounced thickened nose ( such as the Monmouth pattern ).
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Barker was never happy with the sketch's final line ( a male assistant asking " What sort of billhooks did you want ? " ) and changed it ( to a female assistant asking " What sort of knockers were you looking for ? " ) for the stage version of " The Two Ronnies ", although he was still not totally satisfied with it.
