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Meaning of Axe

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Axe - 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.
Battle-axe - A kind of broadax formerly used as an offensive weapon.
Broadax Broadaxe - An ancient military weapon; a battle-ax.
Broadax Broadaxe - An ax with a broad edge, for hewing timber.
Lochaber axe - A weapon of war, consisting of a pole armed with an axhead at its end, formerly used by the Scotch Highlanders.
Pickaxe - A pick with a point at one end, a transverse edge or blade at the other, and a handle inserted at the middle; a hammer with a flattened end for driving wedges and a pointed end for piercing as it strikes.
Poleaxe - Anciently, a kind of battle-ax with a long handle; later, an ax or hatchet with a short handle, and a head variously patterned; -- used by soldiers, and also by sailors in boarding a vessel.
Battle-axe - A kind of broadax formerly used as an offensive weapon.
Broadax Broadaxe - An ancient military weapon; a battle-ax.
Broadax Broadaxe - An ax with a broad edge, for hewing timber.
Lochaber axe - A weapon of war, consisting of a pole armed with an axhead at its end, formerly used by the Scotch Highlanders.
Pickaxe - A pick with a point at one end, a transverse edge or blade at the other, and a handle inserted at the middle; a hammer with a flattened end for driving wedges and a pointed end for piercing as it strikes.
Poleaxe - Anciently, a kind of battle-ax with a long handle; later, an ax or hatchet with a short handle, and a head variously patterned; -- used by soldiers, and also by sailors in boarding a vessel.