Definition of Axe

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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

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Axe Quotations

Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.
Albert Einstein

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
Abraham Lincoln

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

If anybody says their facelift doesn't hurt, they're lying. It was like I'd spent the night with an axe murderer.
Sharon Osbourne

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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