1A device used for cutting timber, typically of iron with a steel advantage and wooden handle. ‘we started swinging the axe within lumps of driftwood’ as modifier ‘an axe blade’ ‘Sighing dreadfully, he moved out from the wood home and picked up his axe to start cutting just what he thought had been enough fire wood to continue for three days.’ ‘They maintained striking one man with an axe handle and it also was intolerable.’ ‘He threw up the axe […]
