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The correct spelling is bill.
How to pronounce bill
/bɪl/
nounIPA: /bɪl/
Say it like: Bil-l
The correct spelling is bill. Any of various bladed or pointed hand weapons, originally designating an Anglo-Saxon sword, and later a weapon of infantry, especially in the 14th and 15th centuries, commonly c…
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Meanings
noun
- 1.Any of various bladed or pointed hand weapons, originally designating an Anglo-Saxon sword, and later a weapon of infantry, especially in the 14th and 15th centuries, commonly consisting of a broad, heavy, double-edged, hook-shaped blade, with a short pike at the back and another at the top, attached to the end of a long staff.
- 2.A cutting instrument, with hook-shaped point, and fitted with a handle, used in pruning, etc.; a billhook.
- 3.Somebody armed with a bill; a billman.
- 4.A pickaxe, or mattock.
- 5.The extremity of the arm of an anchor; the point of or beyond the fluke (also called the peak).
verb
- 1.To dig, chop, etc., with a bill.
- 2.To peck
- 3.To stroke bill against bill, with reference to doves; to caress in fondness
- 4.To advertise by a bill or public notice.
- 5.To charge; to send a bill to.
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