handbill

• hand bill, hand-bill

From hand +‎ bill (“cutting instrument”).

handbill (plural handbills)

1. A pruning hook.
2. A chopping instrument; billhook.

From hand +‎ bill (“sheet of paper”).

handbill (plural handbills)

1. A loose printed sheet, to be distributed by hand.
   • 1941 March, “Railway Literature”, in Railway Magazine, page 144:

     Messengers for Mankind.—By Wilfrid L. Randell. [...] Among the many illustrations is a reproduction of the historic handbill of the Great Western Railway announcing the introduction of the railway electric telegraph more than 100 years ago.

• “handbill”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.