Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An ax or a hammer with two somewhat obtuse edges, used in hewing stone.
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Examples
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There was yet the method of the stone-ax warriors in this battle, and he who fell would be a fearful thing to see.
The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt Elizabeth Miller
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Clad in his ragged fur garment, bare legged and bare armed, with the grass-cloth sack slung over his sinewy shoulder and the heavy stone-ax in his hand, he looked the very image of prehistoric man -- as she, too, seemed the woman of that distant age.
Darkness and Dawn George Allan England 1906
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