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axe
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun axe has 1 sense
- axe(n = noun.artifact) ax - an edge tool with a heavy bladed head mounted across a handle; Array has parts: ax handle, axe handle, ax head, axe head, blade, haft, helve
has particulars: broadax, broadaxe, common ax, common axe, dayton ax, dayton axe, double-bitted ax, double-bitted axe, western ax, western axe, fireman's ax, fireman's axe, hatchet, ice ax, ice axe, piolet, poleax, poleaxe
is a kind of edge tool
Derived form verb axe1
Verb axe has 2 senses
- axe(v = verb.contact) ax - chop or split with an ax; "axe wood" is one way to chop, hack
- axe(v = verb.change) ax - terminate; "The NSF axed the research program and stopped funding it" is one way to end, terminate
Derived form noun axe1
Sample sentence:
They axe the trees
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
CIDE DICTIONARY
axe, n. [OE. ax, axe, AS. eax, æx, acas; akin to D. akse, OS. accus, OHG. acchus, G. axt, Icel. öx, öxi, Sw. yxe, Dan. ökse, Goth. aqizi, Gr. 'axi`nh, L. ascia; not akin to E. acute.].
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. [1913 Webster]
"The ancient battle-ax had sometimes a double edge."
[1913 Webster]
" The word is used adjectively or in combination; as, axhead or ax head; ax helve; ax handle; ax shaft; ax-shaped; axlike."
[1913 Webster]
"This word was originally spelt with e, axe; and so also was nearly every corresponding word of one syllable: as, flaxe, taxe, waxe, sixe, mixe, pixe, oxe, fluxe, etc. This superfluous e is not dropped; so that, in more than a hundred words ending in x, no one thinks of retaining the e except in axe. Analogy requires its exclusion here."
[1913 Webster]
"“The spelling ax is better on every ground, of etymology, phonology, and analogy, than axe, which has of late become prevalent.” New English Dict. (Murray).
OXFORD DICTIONARY
axe, n. & v. (US ax)
--n.
1 a chopping-tool, usu. of iron with a steel edge and wooden handle.
2 the drastic cutting or elimination of expenditure, staff, etc.
--v.tr. (axing)
1 cut (esp. costs or services) drastically.
2 remove or dismiss.
--n.
1 a chopping-tool, usu. of iron with a steel edge and wooden handle.
2 the drastic cutting or elimination of expenditure, staff, etc.
--v.tr. (axing)
1 cut (esp. costs or services) drastically.
2 remove or dismiss.
Idiom
axe-breaker a hard-wooded Australian tree. an axe to grind private ends to serve.
Etymology
OE {aelig}x f. Gmc
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