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Brown bill  n.  A bill or halberd of the 16th and 17th centuries. See 4th Bill. "Many time, but for a sallet, my brainpan had been cleft with a brown bill." Note: 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.






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... grappling-hooks were brought at length, The brown bill and the sword-a; John Dory at length, for all his strength, ...
— The Mayor of Troy • Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch



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