Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Variant of ax1.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Wiktionary
- n. archaic The axle of a wheel.
- v. To furnish with an axle.
- v. Alternative form of ask.
- n. A tool for felling trees or chopping wood etc. consisting of a heavy head flattened to a blade on one side, and a handle attached to it.
- n. An ancient weapon consisting of a head that has one or two blades and a long handle.
- n. informal A dismissal or rejection.
- n. slang, music A gigging musician's particular instrument, especially a guitar in rock music or a saxophone in jazz.
- v. transitive To fell or chop with an axe.
- v. transitive To terminate or reduce tremendously in a rough or ruthless manner.
- v. transitive To lay off: to terminate a person's employment
GNU Webster's 1913
WordNet 3.0
- v. chop or split with an ax
- v. terminate.
- n. an edge tool with a heavy bladed head mounted across a handle
Examples
“IV. v.218 (300,8) And where the offence is, let the great axe fall] [W: tax] _Fall_ corresponds better to _axe_.”
“I believe that one of his most famous paintings - the rider on the hill with the curved axe, is meant to depict Kane or was inspired by Kane.”
“Savo, a point in favour of an axe is that most training concentrates on knife defence (for close quarter work) thus an axe allows you surprise.”
“Now we shall have dogs, and in plenty," he remarked grimly, slipping an axe from the sled lashings.”
“Who can say where the axe is going to fall, or which Republican challengers are going to bring their A game? scythia says:”
Matthew Yglesias » Abramowitz: House Dems Doomed Even If Political Climate Changes
““Bread that must be sliced with an axe is bread that is too nourishing” - Fran Lebowitz”
“The axe is heavy and sharp, and I want no mistakes.”
“And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: therefore every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.”
““I took out the ice axe from the raincoat, gripped it in my hand and, with my eyes closed, dealt him a terrible blow on the head.””
“It was pointed out to him in no uncertain terms that an axe is a lethal weapon and I seem to recall that his card was withdrawn. on November 3, 2008 at 7: 40 pm | Reply Gastank”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘axe’.
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TECH - tools
A very wide category. There are possibly tens of thousands tool words in each of the world's languages.
broom, brush, feather duster, floor buffer, hataki, mop, mop bucket cart, needlegun scaler, pipe cleaner, pressure washer, sandblaster, sponge and 286 more...
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UK Usage - Find US Equivalent
All these terms have a (different) American English equivalent. Wonder if you can identify them?
abridgement (abri..., accoutrement, accoutre, acknowledgement (..., opposite, advert, adaptor, adapter, sticking plaster, advertise, adviser (advisor ..., adze, aesthete and 1196 more...
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Down on the Farm
All things farm and agriculture related.
barn, tractor, cow, hay, horse, pig, corn, plough, irrigation, subsidies, crops, plant and 260 more...
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3-letter Scrabble Words
aah, aal, aas, aba, abo, abs, aby, ace, act, add, ado, ads and 995 more...
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3 Letter Words
A list of English words that are three letters long.
ace, act, ade, ado, add, ads, age, ago, ail, air, aim, all and 397 more...
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Xcessive
Valid 3-letter words with an x. Also, longer words with more than one x in them.
wax, fix, tux, box, sex, max, six, aux, pox, hex, tax, mix and 78 more...
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Musical colloquial
Non-standard musical terms.
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cindywrites's Words
chiaroscuro, mollycoddle, feckless, evocative, provocative, invocation, beckon, allay, becalm, console, lull, soothe and 479 more...
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strangelyrouge's Words
glockenspiel, gewgaw, jetsam, flotsam, gripe, grab, wench, whilst, betwixt, hither, thither, yonder and 1034 more...
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colleen's words
yellow, green, pie, blue, fur, people, incense, book, brown, avuncular, mountain, fog and 1316 more...
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Most of the Nouns from Joanna Newsom'...
meadowlark, sparrow, spree, pharoah, pharisees, comb, meadow, pines, marrow, bones, birches, spires and 95 more...
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Words grabbed from real life conversa...
If I've seen it, heard it, or marvelled at it, I'll stick it here.
cruft, ermine, redundant, shakespearean, camino, marvelous, stupendous, chagrin, shaven, sleek, smug, stillness and 325 more...
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Guitarist's Glossary
frets, fretboard, neck, peghead, headstock, tuners, tuning machines, strings, bridge, tremolo, whammy bar, sound hole and 201 more...
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KaeZoo's Words
flingers, unhinged, driven, flanked, arboreal, venerable, endearing, iconoclastic, fletcher, competent, fireproof, cavernous and 215 more...
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I Live a (SOWPODS) Hardscrabble Life
aa, ad, ae, ah, ai, am, an, ar, as, at, aw, ax and 168 more...
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The Old English Influence
Modern English words impacted by and descended from Old English.
a, aback, abaft, abide, about, above, abode, accursed, accurst, ache, acknowledge, acorn and 109 more...
Tweets
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ruzuzu "See ax, axman."
--GNU Webster's 1913 Apr 15, 2011
whichbe Some people do these to questions. Oct 10, 2008
reesetee Now that's useful stuff, bilby. ;-) Dec 19, 2007
michaelchang why don't you use that sentence in the haiku list bilby - it's 5 syllables? and such lovely ones to. Dec 19, 2007
bilby On the internet one may find an axe in the head. Dec 19, 2007