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  • noun Plural form of axhead.

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Examples

  • An unassuming, 900-year-old village in Illinois has yielded an unprecedented cache of stone axheads.

    Cold Hard Cache 2001

  • Although four of the axheads show signs of wear, 66 of the blades were never used, suggesting they were created for ceremonial purposes, probably in Cahokia itself.

    Cold Hard Cache 2001

  • Elcaxi and his comrades pushed away the guards 'bills and axheads, relying on their bodies to hold the raging Eladamri.

    Nemesis Thompson, Paul B. 2000

  • Of stone did we make our knives, our axheads and spearheads and arrowheads, our burial chambers.

    The Boat of a Million Years Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1989

  • Poul Anderson stone did we make our knives, our axheads and spearheads and arrowheads, our burial chambers.

    The Boat of a Million Years Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1988

  • She had formidable claws on her fingers, and buck teeth like axheads.

    The Ringworld Engineers Niven, Larry 1980

  • She had formidable claws on her fingers, and buck teeth like axheads.

    The Ringworld Engineers Niven, Larry 1980

  • - "From very early times knives, axheads, chisels, spearheads, arrowheads, and other tools and weapons have been fashioned out of this rock."

    CreationWiki - Recent changes [en] Anaccuratesource 2010

  • - "From very early times knives, axheads, chisels, spearheads, arrowheads, and other tools and weapons have been fashioned out of this rock."

    CreationWiki - Recent changes [en] Anaccuratesource 2010

  • - "From very early times knives, axheads, chisels, spearheads, arrowheads, and other tools and weapons have been fashioned out of this rock."

    CreationWiki - Recent changes [en] Anaccuratesource 2010

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