An edge tool with a heavy bladed head mounted across a handle
Noun
an edge tool with a heavy bladed head mounted across a handle
Verb
terminate; "The NSF axed the research program and stopped funding it"
Verb
chop or split with an ax; "axe wood"
n.
A tool or instrument of steel, or of iron with a steel edge or
blade, for felling trees, chopping and splitting wood, hewing timber,
etc. It is wielded by a wooden helve or handle, so fixed in a socket or
eye as to be in the same plane with the blade. The broadax, or
carpenter's ax, is an ax for hewing timber, made heavier than the
chopping ax, and with a broader and thinner blade and a shorter handle.
Alt. of Axeman
Usage Examples
If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let us fall by the axe and not by the butcher's cleaver.
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