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brown bill
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brown bill, [Brown + bill cutting tool.].
A bill or halberd of the 16th and 17th centuries. See 4th Bill. [1913 Webster]
" The black, or as it is sometimes called, the brown bill, was a kind of halberd, the cutting part hooked like a woodman's bill, from the back of which projected a spike, and another from the head." Grose.
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"Many time, but for a sallet, my brainpan had been cleft with a brown bill."
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