bills

ot 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.

fe’l 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.