Meanings
nounforest-bill (plural forest-bills)
plural forest-bills
- obsoleteA bill-hook used by woodsmen.
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 […]
1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
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