(n.) A thick, heavy knife with a hooked point, used in pruning hedges, etc. When it has a short handle, it is sometimes called a hand bill; when the handle is long, a hedge bill or scimiter.
Example Sentences:
(1) Resembling a billhook, with Foule Crag its wickedly curved tip, this final flourish looks daunting but can be skirted to one side, up awkward slabs.
(2) The Walter’s Tools library in Cumbria loans out a heritage collection of billhooks and scythes; modern share shops have shelves of useful stuff you only need occasionally, as do your neighbours .
(3) Foule Crag may sound Chaucerian, and indeed can prompt the kind of Anglo-Saxon language found in The Miller's Tale; it is as inextricably linked with Sharp Edge as is the wickedly curved tip on a Staffordshire billhook.
Falchion
Definition:
(n.) A broad-bladed sword, slightly curved, shorter and lighter than the ordinary sword; -- used in the Middle Ages.
(n.) A name given generally and poetically to a sword, especially to the swords of Oriental and fabled warriors.