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axe
/æks/
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What does axe mean?
noun
- 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.
- An ancient weapon consisting of a head that has one or two blades and a long handle.
- (informal) A dismissal or rejection.
More meanings (10)
noun
- (figuratively) A drastic reduction or cutback.
- (slang) A gigging musician's particular instrument, especially a guitar in rock music or a saxophone in jazz.
- A position, interest, or reason in buying and selling stock, often with ulterior motives.
- (archaic) The axle of a wheel.
verb
- To fell or chop with an axe.
- (figuratively) To lay off, terminate or drastically reduce, especially in a rough or ruthless manner; to cancel.
- To furnish with an axle.
- (obsolete) Alternative form of ask.
proper noun
- A river in Dorset, Somerset, and east Devon, England, which flows into Lyme Bay at Seaton.
- A river in Somerset, England, which flows into the Bristol Channel at Weston-super-Mare.
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IPA pronunciation
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See this word in context.
Besides being well shod each carried an alpenstock, and for special difficulties we had a hundred feet of rope and an axe.
As we pass this clearing, the settler leans upon his axe or hammer, and looks wistfully at the people from the world.
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She seizes an axe or hatchet near at hand, with which she breaks open door or window to let her darlings escape.
"I'm looking for the axe that fell into the water just at this notch, as I was coming down river," says SALEH.
While working at some wood-cutting a man was struck on a heavy boot by a snake, which he killed with an axe.