axe

Speech parts

1. axe - Noun

2. axe - Verb

4. Axe - Proper noun

Meaning

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 dictionary

Synonyms

ax tomahawk hew fire cut hatchet chopper remove dismiss terminate sever chop cut down lay off Gibson
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Antonyms

life increase accept employ enhance admit
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Hypernyms

end tool terminate hack chop edge tool

Hyponyms

hatchet poleaxe poleax ice axe broadaxe piolet

Phrases with the word

axe to grind with no axe to grind double-bladed axe double-edged axe western axe bearded axe

Examples

Whoever 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

Close letter words and terms

axanthopsia Axbridge Axcell axe handle axe head axe man