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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



... bunks built on opposite sides of the room, and in the middle a table was made of a long section split from the heart of a log by wedges, apparently, and still rude and undressed, except for the preliminary smoothing off which had been done with a broad-ax. ...
— Riders of the Silences • John Frederick
... all my store of tools, and gave every man a digging spade, a shovel, and a rake, for we had no harrows or ploughs; and to every separate place a pickaxe, a crow, a broadaxe, and a saw; always appointing, that as often as any were broken, or worn out, they should be supplied, without grudging, out of the general stores that I ...
— The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1808) • Daniel Defoe
... (all the money she possessed in the world), and, handing it to him, said: "Levi, you may go, and this starts you on your education." On his way over to India his preaching converted all the sailors, including the ship's carpenter, "whose heart was as hard as his broadaxe." That was the stuff our first missionaries were made of. The tears flowed down our cheeks as we listened to Spalding's recital, and the result of his visit was that more than one of our students volunteered for ...
— Recollections of a Long Life - An Autobiography • Theodore Ledyard Cuyler


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