1. axe - Noun
2. axe - Verb
4. Axe - Proper noun
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
Source: Webster's dictionaryWhoever hammers a lump of iron, first decides what he is going to make of it, a scythe, a sword, or an axe. Even so we ought to make up our minds what kind of virtue we want to forge or we labour in vain. Anthony the Great
Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal. Albert Einstein
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 W. Dijkstra
A little axe can cut down a big tree. Jamaican Proverb
An axe without a shaft is no threat to the forest. Bulgarian Proverb
An axe does not cut down a tree by itself. Burkina Faso Proverb