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Broad-ax   Listen
noun
broad-ax, broad-axe, Broadaxe, Broadax  n.  
1.
An ancient military weapon; a battle-ax.
2.
An ax with a broad edge, for hewing timber.





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"Broad-ax" Quotes from Famous Books



... worn the words next his skin and slept with them. Yet it is not as a sayer of particular good things that Athelred is most to he regarded, rather as the stalwart woodman of thought. I have pulled on a light cord often enough, while he has been wielding the broad-axe; and between us, on this unequal division, many a specious fallacy has fallen. I have known him to battle the same question night after night for years, keeping it in the reign of talk, constantly applying it and re-applying it to life ...
— Memories and Portraits • Robert Louis Stevenson
... often a large slab of timber, hewn out with a broad-axe, and supported by four stakes driven into auger-holes. The table furniture consisted of a few pewter dishes, with wooden plates and bowls. There were generally a few pewter spoons, much battered about the ...
— David Crockett: His Life and Adventures • John S. C. Abbott
... erection of log-cabins, would be surprised to behold the simplicity of their mechanism, and the rapidity with which they are put together. The axe and the auger are often the only tools used in their construction, but usually the drawing-knife, the broad-axe, ...
— Woman on the American Frontier • William Worthington Fowler


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