Bill vs. Rapier

Billnoun

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.

Billnoun

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

Billnoun

Somebody armed with a bill; a billman.

Billnoun

A pickaxe, or mattock.

Billnoun

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

Billnoun

The beak of a bird, especially when small or flattish; sometimes also used with reference to a platypus, turtle, or other animal.

Billnoun

A beak-like projection, especially a promontory.

Billnoun

Of a cap or hat: the brim or peak, serving as a shade to keep sun off the face and out of the eyes.

Billnoun

A written list or inventory. (Now obsolete except in specific senses or set phrases; bill of lading, bill of goods, etc.)

Billnoun

A document, originally sealed; a formal statement or official memorandum. (Now obsolete except with certain qualifying words; bill of health, bill of sale etc.)

Billnoun

A draft of a law, presented to a legislature for enactment; a proposed or projected law.

Billnoun

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.

Billnoun

(US) A piece of paper money; a banknote.

Billnoun

A written note of goods sold, services rendered, or work done, with the price or charge; an invoice.

Billnoun

A paper, written or printed, and posted up or given away, to advertise something, as a lecture, a play, or the sale of goods

Billnoun

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. A bill of exchange. In the United States, it is usually called a note, a note of hand, or a promissory note.

Billnoun

A set of items presented together.

Billverb

(transitive) To dig, chop, etc., with a bill.

Billverb

(obsolete) To peck.

Billverb

To stroke bill against bill, with reference to doves; to caress in fondness.

Billverb

(transitive) To advertise by a bill or public notice.

Billverb

(transitive) To charge; to send a bill to.

Billnoun

A beak, as of a bird, or sometimes of a turtle or other animal.

Billnoun

The bell, or boom, of the bittern

Billnoun

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.

Billnoun

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.

Billnoun

One who wields a bill; a billman.

Billnoun

A pickax, or mattock.

Billnoun

The extremity of the arm of an anchor; the point of or beyond the fluke.

Billnoun

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.

Billnoun

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.

Billnoun

A form or draft of a law, presented to a legislature for enactment; a proposed or projected law.

Billnoun

A paper, written or printed, and posted up or given away, to advertise something, as a lecture, a play, or the sale of goods; a placard; a poster; a handbill.

Billnoun

An account of goods sold, services rendered, or work done, with the price or charge; a statement of a creditor's claim, in gross or by items; as, a grocer's bill.

Billnoun

Any paper, containing a statement of particulars; as, a bill of charges or expenditures; a weekly bill of mortality; a bill of fare, etc.

Billverb

To strike; to peck.

Billverb

To join bills, as doves; to caress in fondness.

Billverb

To work upon ( as to dig, hoe, hack, or chop anything) with a bill.

Billverb

To advertise by a bill or public notice.

Billverb

To charge or enter in a bill; as, to bill goods.

Billnoun

a statute in draft before it becomes law;

Billnoun

an itemized statement of money owed for goods shipped or services rendered;

Billnoun

a piece of paper money (especially one issued by a central bank);

Billnoun

the entertainment offered at a public presentation

Billnoun

a list of particulars (as a playbill or bill of fare)

Billnoun

an advertisement (usually printed on a page or in a leaflet) intended for wide distribution;

Billnoun

horny projecting mouth of a bird

Billnoun

a sign posted in a public place as an advertisement;

Billnoun

a long-handled saw with a curved blade;

Billnoun

a brim that projects to the front to shade the eyes;

Billverb

demand payment;

Billverb

advertise especially by posters or placards;

Billverb

publicize or announce by placards

Rapiernoun

A slender, straight, sharply pointed sword (double-edged, single-edged or edgeless).

Rapieradjective

Extremely sharp.

Rapieradjective

Cutting smarts or keen wit.

Rapiernoun

A straight sword, with a narrow and finely pointed blade, used only for thrusting.

Rapiernoun

a straight sword with a narrow blade and two edges

Rapier

A rapier () or espada ropera is a type of sword with a slender and sharply-pointed two-edged blade that was popular in Western Europe, both for civilian use (dueling and self-defense) and as a military side arm, throughout the 16th and 17th centuries. Important sources for rapier fencing include the Italian Bolognese group, with early representatives such as Antonio Manciolino and Achille Marozzo publishing in the 1530s, and reaching the peak of its popularity with writers of the early 1600s (Salvator Fabris, Ridolfo Capo Ferro).