axeblade

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noun The blade of an axe; or, a blade identical to that of an axe, but not actually part of one.

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Desperately Bernhard struggled to pull the axeblade free, but the other derro was too quick.

Flint, the King Kirchoff, Mary 2003
She spoke quietly, but her voice had no more mercy in it than an axeblade does.

Lord of the Isles 1997
The slash became a thrust so quick that it was through the eyesocket of the creature with the axe while sparks the axeblade had struck from the scabbard's iron mountings still glowed in the air.

Lord of the Isles 1997
He discovered that he relished the feel of the small axeblade cutting the wood into kindling.

The Kinslayer Wars Niles, Douglas 1991
Desperately Bernhard struggled to pull the axeblade free, but the other derro was too quick.

Flint the King Kirchoff, Mary 1990
The axeblade whistled through the air and bit cleanly into the center of the old beech stump by the cabin door.

Stormwarden Wurts, Janny 1989
Breezes rustled through serried tufts of dune grass, and tossed the boughs of cedars whose majestic growth had never known the bite of an axeblade, nor any other abuse of man's invention.

Stormwarden Wurts, Janny 1989
But the instant his flesh touched the grip, demon images clove his mind like the sheared edge of an axeblade, and swept away all semblance of identity.

Stormwarden Wurts, Janny 1989