Definitions for axe
ax·e

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. ax, axeverb

   an edge tool with a heavy bladed head mounted across a handle

2. axe, axverb

   chop or split with an ax

   "axe wood"

3. ax, axeverb

   terminate

   "The NSF axed the research program and stopped funding it"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. axenoun

   The axle of a wheel.

2. axeverb

   To furnish with an axle.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Axenoun

   An instrument consisting of a metal head, with a sharp edge, fixed in a helve or handle, to cut with.

   Etymology: eax , acse, Sax. ascia, Lat.

   No metal can,
   No, not the hangman’s axe, bear half the keenness
   Of thy sharp envy. William Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice.

   There stood a forest on the mountain’s brow,
   Which overlook’d the shaded plains below;
   No sounding axe presum’d these trees to bite,
   Coeval with the world; a venerable sight. John Dryden, Fables.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. axe

   An axe is a tool, typically composed of a sharp-edged metal blade attached to a handle. It is commonly used for chopping wood, cutting, shaping, or splitting materials. Axes can also be used as weapons or ceremonial symbols. They come in various shapes, sizes, and forms, often designed according to their specific use or function.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Axenoun

   a tool or instrument of steel, or of iron with a steel edge or blade, for felling trees, chopping and splitting wood, hewing timber, etc. It is wielded by a wooden helve or handle, so fixed in a socket or eye as to be in the same plane with the blade. The broadax, or carpenter's ax, is an ax for hewing timber, made heavier than the chopping ax, and with a broader and thinner blade and a shorter handle

2. Axe

   alt. of Axeman

3. Etymology: [OE. ax, axe, AS. eax, x, acas; akin to D. akse, OS. accus, OHG. acchus, G. axt, Icel. x, xi, Sw. yxe, Dan. kse, Goth. aqizi, Gr. 'axi`nh, L. ascia; not akin to E. acute.]

WikidataRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Axe

   The axe is an implement that has been used for millennia to shape, split and cut wood; to harvest timber; as a weapon; and as a ceremonial or heraldic symbol. The axe has many forms and specialized uses but generally consists of an axe head with a handle, or helve. Before the modern axe, the stone-age hand axe was used from 1.5 million years BP without a handle. It was later fastened to a wooden handle. The earliest examples of handled axes have heads of stone with some form of wooden handle attached in a method to suit the available materials and use. Axes made of copper, bronze, iron, steel appeared as these technologies developed. The axe is an example of a simple machine, as it is a type of wedge, or dual inclined plane. This reduces the effort needed by the wood chopper. It splits the wood into two parts by the pressure concentration at the blade. The handle of the axe also acts as a lever allowing the user to increase the force at the cutting edge—not using the full length of the handle is known as choking the axe. For fine chopping using a side axe this sometimes is a positive effect, but for felling with a double bitted axe it reduces efficiency. Generally, cutting axes have a shallow wedge angle, whereas splitting axes have a deeper angle. Most axes are double bevelled, i.e. symmetrical about the axis of the blade, but some specialist broadaxes have a single bevel blade, and usually an offset handle that allows them to be used for finishing work without putting the user's knuckles at risk of injury. Less common today, they were once an integral part of a joiner and carpenter's tool kit, not just a tool for use in forestry. A tool of similar origin is the billhook. However in France and Holland the billhook often replaced the axe as a joiner's bench tool.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Axe

   Ax, aks, n. a well-known tool or instrument for hewing or chopping, usually of iron with a steel edge:—pl. Ax′es. [A.S. æx; L. ascia; Gr. axinē.]

Dictionary of Nautical TermsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. axe

   A large flat edge-tool, for trimming and reducing timber. Also an Anglo-Saxon word for ask, which seamen still adhere to, and it is difficult to say why a word should be thought improper which has descended from our earliest poets; it may have become obsolete, but without absolutely being vulgar or incorrect.

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Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. AXE

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Axe is ranked #22056 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Axe surname appeared 1,175 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Axe.
   
   94.2% or 1,107 total occurrences were White.
   2.2% or 26 total occurrences were of two or more races.
   1.5% or 18 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
   1.4% or 17 total occurrences were Asian.

Matched Categories

1. • Chop
   • Terminate

How to pronounce axe?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say axe in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of axe in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of axe in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of axe in a Sentence

1. Asbel Kiprop:

   My family and I are devastated. I am traumatized, the line of questioning I was subjected to earlier strongly suggested somebody had an axe to grind.

2. Mahabharata:

   A wound inflicted by arrows heals, a wood cut down by an axe grows, but harsh words are hateful?a wound inflicted by them does not heal. Arrows of different sorts can be extracted from the body, but a word-dart cannot be drawn out, for it is seated in the heart.

3. Anne Bradstreet:

   Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.

4. William Shakespeare:

   And many strokes, though with a little axe, Hew down and fell the hardest-timbered oak.

5. Abraham Lincoln:

   If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my axe.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=axe
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Axe
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=axe
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/axe
6. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=axe
7. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=axe
8. ^ Dictionary of Nautical Terms
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/26000/pg26000-images.html#:~:text=axe
9. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
   https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html