bill

bill has 31 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 4.

Definitions

• n.. A beak, as of a bird, or sometimes of a turtle or other animal.
• v. i.. To strike; to peck.
• v. i.. To join bills, as doves; to caress in fondness.
• n.. The bell, or boom, of the bittern
• n.. A cutting instrument, with hook-shaped point, and fitted with a handle; -- used in pruning, etc.; a billhook. When short, called a hand bill, when long, a hedge bill.
• n.. A weapon of infantry, in the 14th and 15th centuries. A common form of bill consisted of a broad, heavy, double-edged, hook-shaped blade, having a short pike at the back and another at the top, and attached to the end of a long staff.
• n.. One who wields a bill; a billman.
• n.. A pickax, or mattock.
• n.. The extremity of the arm of an anchor; the point of or beyond the fluke.
• v. t.. To work upon ( as to dig, hoe, hack, or chop anything) with a bill.
• n.. A declaration made in writing, stating some wrong the complainant has suffered from the defendant, or a fault committed by some person against a law.
• n.. A writing binding the signer or signers to pay a certain sum at a future day or on demand, with or without interest, as may be stated in the document.