Word Finder - bill

definition

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.

synonyms

• polearm

definition

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

synonyms

• billhook
• hand bill
• hedge bill

definition

Somebody armed with a bill; a billman.

synonyms

• billman

definition

A pickaxe, or mattock.

definition

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

definition

To dig, chop, etc., with a bill.

I paid the electric and water bill this week.

He called for his bill and paid it.

I dictated the bill number.

I reached for my largest bill; a fifty.

I have chores to do and I can't afford this hospital bill, anyway.

She sat down and pulled her chair up to the table, glancing to see how Bill would react.

He may veto a bill, or in case of an appropriation bill, the separate items, but this veto may be overridden by a simple majority of the total membership of each house.

She smiled and shoved the bill into her purse.

It's just a matter of time until she and Bill get married and you know how Bill always liked this place.

I guess the feed bill is considerably smaller, too.

Bill is helping out when he gets off work.

She took it and handed him a five dollar bill.

I notice the difference in the grocery bill just feeding Martha.

Dean wondered if Bird Song could afford the food bill as he sat down and joined Pumpkin for a cup of coffee.

He rose abruptly, his coffee only half finished, and paid his bill.

In March 1679 he protested against the second reading of the bill for disabling Danby.

It was he who brought about the compromise on the military bill in 1874.

The bill presented by his Cabinet on this subject, vas open to much criticism, having been designed to conciliate conflicting political interests rather than to solve the actual problem.

Saturday ended with one success in four tries, and a sizeable telephone bill.

If it is, I can get Bill or Josh to move it.

Did you tell Bill?

The Sycamore tree that had fallen on it had been removed by Josh, Bill, Alex and Mr. Reynolds using a chain saw and good old-fashioned elbow grease.

They finished lunch and then he took her to Katie and Bill's house.

Katie and Bill were in the kitchen when she arrived, and Katie already had breakfast ready.

The ministry of Lord North, however, was tottering, and soon after fell; the Board of Trade was abolished by the passing of Burke's bill in 1782, and Gibbon's salary vanished with it - no trifle, for his expenditure had been for three years on a scale somewhat disproportionate to his private fortune.

After the modification of the Pelloux cabinet (May 1899) he became leader of the ministerial majority, and bore the brunt of the struggle against Socialist obstruction in connexion with the Public Safety Bill.

When she was in the hospital, he had paid her bill.

She lagged behind so he could open the restaurant door for them, but once inside he surrendered their care to Josh and Bill.

I can take care of my own feed bill.

Yet according to Katie, she had told him she would never move back to Houston; that she intended to marry Bill.

Anyway," he smiled wryly, "when we get married it will be my bill."

Bill made arrangements to move in with Katie after they were married.

Katie and Bill can watch the farm and we can take Ed back with us.

Nothing more was said about the matter until a week later when Katie and Bill moved into their new home.

Josh, Bill and Alex had gone hunting for them the day after the attack, but they lost the trail in some rocks on her back 40 acres.

Just don't overload the phone bill if I come up with some names.

Maybe Scranton was the best spot to fill the bill.

Just watch the phone bill.

The success of the restaurant rested more on out-of-date memories than the current excellence of its bill of fare.

He quickly pulled a 20-dollar bill from his wallet and shoved ahead of a cluster of cus­tomers lined up at the cashier and thrust the money at the woman.

Alex and Bill walked back into the kitchen.

Right now she'd better get back to Katie and Bill's house before Alex came home.

Fine, but at least tell Bill about it – or let me tell him.

What could Bill do?

Tell Bill – but tell him not to talk to Alex about it before I get a chance to.

If Katie told Bill, he didn't say anything about it, and if he knew about it, he obviously didn't say anything to Alex or Alex would have been upset because she went to the house.

Bill turned around and his expression assured her that a man would find it attractive as well.

By the time he brought her back to Katie and Bill's, it was late and the lights in the house were off.

Bill is going to come over tonight and do the chores so we can have the evening to relax and talk together.

Alex was followed by Bill and then Josh.