brown bill [废]古代英国步兵用的深黄色的戟
Brown bill \Brown" bill`\ [Brown + bill cutting tool.]
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. --Shak.
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. --Grose.