battle-axe

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  • From one of these I picked a battle-axe, and then, leaving my candle behind me, I crept on tiptoe down the passage and peeped in at the open door. —  The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
  • For one second some ghastly bloody-minded ancestor had been glimpsed, swinging a two-bladed battle-axe. —  A Rude Awakening
  • Hooked on the weapons belt around his waist, at the small of his back, hung a crescent-bladed battle-axe. —  The Pillars of Creation
  • Four dwarves, each with a battle-axe at the ready, stood blocking the road. —  The Doom Brigade
  • A short-handled battle-axe hung from it. —  Ship Of Destiny
 

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battleaxe ·  battle-ax ·  quarterstaff ·  tomahawk ·  buckler ·  scalping-knife ·  arquebuse ·  halberd ·  mace ·  mattock ·  garni ·  cudgel
Roget's II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition by the Editors of the American Heritage® Dictionary. Copyright © 2003, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
 

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