[f. BILL sb.1] trans. To work at or on with a bill; to hoe, hack, chop, lop.
c. 1440. Promp. Parv., 36. Byllen wythe mattokys, ligonizo, marro.
1647. H. More, Ad Paron., Poems 319. Busily billing the rough outward rinde.
1833. M. Scott, Tom Cringle, xix. 534. A small footpath that had been billed in the bush.
