The billhook is the European equivalent of tools such as machetes, parangs, and kukris. Traditionally the hedgelayer's tool was a billhook, supplemented with an axe. The use of a billhook is between that of a knife and an axe. The knife is similar in design to the sickle and billhook. They were in two leather bags, together with a billhook and bloodied gloves. It is similar to a billhook, but with a longer handle. The main difference is that the bear was holding a billhook. A tool of similar origin is the billhook. Some styles of billhook have scales of hardwood or horn fitted to the handle. Or in base a cloverleaf couped proper above which a billhook argent hafted proper. "Kaetta" means a "beak" or "billhook", probably referring to the knife's down curving tip. The billhook is an issued tool in some armed forces (see fascine knife). In American English a billhook may sometimes be called a "fascine knife". Sometimes confused with the heavier and straighter billhook used for cutting wood or laying hedges.