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Definition of Axe

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. Alt. of Axeman Related Definitions: Alt, An, And, As, Ax, Axeman, Be, Blade, By, Carpenter, Chopping, Edge, Eye, Felling, Fixed, For, Handle, Helve, Hewing, In, Instrument, Iron, Is, It, Made, Of, Or, Plane, Same, So, Socket, Splitting, Steel, Than, The, Thinner, Timber, To, Tool, Wielded, With, Wood, Wooden

Axe Quotations Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe. Abraham Lincoln Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal. Albert Einstein 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. Lord Byron About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain to try to do it with ten blunt axes instead. Edsger Dijkstra I knew there was an old axe down cellar; that is all I knew. Lizzie Andrew Borden

Axe Translations axe in Dutch is hakbijl, bijl axe in French is hache axe in German is Axt {f}, Beil {n} axe in Latin is securis axe in Portuguese is machado axe in Spanish is hacha axe in Swedish is yxa

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