Ax

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Ax \Ax\ ([a^]ks), v. t. & i. [OE. axien and asken. See {Ask}.]
     To ask; to inquire or inquire of.
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     Note: This word is from Saxon, and is as old as the English
           language. Formerly it was in good use, but now is


           regarded as a vulgarism. It is still dialectic in
           England, and is sometimes heard among the uneducated in
           the United States. "And Pilate axide him, Art thou king
           of Jewis?" "Or if he axea fish." --Wyclif. 'bdThe king
           axed after your Grace's welfare." --Pegge.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Ax \Ax\, Axe \Axe\, ([a^]ks), n. [OE. ax, axe, AS. eax, [ae]x,
     acas; akin to D. akse, OS. accus, OHG. acchus, G. axt, Icel.
     ["o]x, ["o]xi, Sw. yxe, Dan. ["o]kse, Goth. aqizi, Gr.
     'axi`nh, L. ascia; not akin to E. acute.]
     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.
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     Note: The ancient battle-ax had sometimes a double edge.
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     Note: The word is used adjectively or in combination; as,
           axhead or ax head; ax helve; ax handle; ax shaft;
           ax-shaped; axlike.
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     Note: This word was originally spelt with e, axe; and so also
           was nearly every corresponding word of one syllable:
           as, flaxe, taxe, waxe, sixe, mixe, pixe, oxe, fluxe,
           etc. This superfluous e is not dropped; so that, in
           more than a hundred words ending in x, no one thinks of
           retaining the e except in axe. Analogy requires its
           exclusion here.
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     Note: "The spelling ax is better on every ground, of
           etymology, phonology, and analogy, than axe, which has
           of late become prevalent." --New English Dict.
           (Murray).
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  ax
       n : an edge tool with a heavy bladed head mounted across a
           handle [syn: {axe}]
       v 1: chop or split with an ax; "axe wood" [syn: {axe}]
       2: terminate; "The NSF axed the research program and stopped
          funding it" [syn: {axe}]
       [also: {axes} (pl)]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  139 Moby Thesaurus words for "ax":
     amputate, battle-ax, beheading, bisect, blade, block, boot out,
     bounce, burning, butcher, can, capital punishment, carve, cashier,
     cashiering, chop, cleave, cold steel, conge, cross, crucifixion,
     cut, cut away, cut in two, cut off, cutlery, cutter, dagger,
     death chair, death chamber, decapitation, decollation,
     defenestration, deposal, dichotomize, discharge, disemployment,
     dismissal, displacing, dissever, drop, drumming out, edge tools,
     electric chair, electrocution, excise, execution, fire, firing,
     fissure, forced separation, furloughing, fusillade, gallows,
     gallows-tree, garrote, gas chamber, gash, gassing, gibbet,
     guillotine, hack, halberd, halter, halve, hanging, hatchet,
     hemlock, hemp, hempen collar, hew, hot seat, incise, jigsaw,
     judicial murder, kick out, knife, lance, lapidation, layoff,
     lethal chamber, maiden, naked steel, necktie party, noose, pare,
     pigsticker, pink slip, point, poisoning, poleax, prune, puncturer,
     removal, rend, retirement, rive, rope, sack, saw, scaffold,
     scissor, sever, sharpener, shooting, slash, slice, slit, snip,
     split, stake, steel, stoning, strangling, strangulation, sunder,
     surplusing, suspension, sword, tear, terminate, the ax, the block,
     the boot, the bounce, the chair, the gallows, the gas chamber,
     the gate, the guillotine, the hot seat, the rope, the sack, ticket,
     toad sticker, tomahawk, tree, walking papers, whittle