Meaning

2 senses

  1. A hatchet or throwing axe.

  2. A prehistoric stone tool made by flaking to produce an edge, used without a handle.

    a stone tool with a cutting edge; the stone is held in the hand and used for chopping

Examples

1 sentences

  1. Dmitri cut off Rima’s hand with an axe.

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Origin

From Middle English hand-ax, handax, handex, hond axe, from Old English handæx (“hatchet”)

From Middle English hand-ax, handax, handex, hond axe, from Old English handæx (“hatchet”), from Proto-Germanic *handakwisī. By surface analysis, hand + axe.

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Forms

plural: hand axes

Synonyms

1 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • a stone tool with a cutting edge; the stone is held in the hand and used for chopping:hand ax

See also

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