bill

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IPA（発音記号）

/bɪl/

名詞

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.

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The museum's reconstructed medieval bill gleamed under the display lights, its hooked blade and short top pike hinting at the brutal tactics of 14th-century infantry.

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意味（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.

In the British Museum there is an entry of a warrant, granted to Nicholas Spicer, authorising him to impress smiths for making two thousand Welch bills or glaives.

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意味（2）

A cutting instrument, with hook-shaped point, and fitted with a handle, used in pruning, etc.; a billhook.

意味（3）

Somebody armed with a bill; a billman.

意味（4）

A pickaxe, or mattock.

意味（5）

(nautical) The extremity of the arm of an anchor; the point of or beyond the fluke (also called the peak).

bills （ plural ）