Axe

6 definitions found

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

  Axe \Axe\, Axeman \Axe"man\, etc.
     See {Ax}, {Axman}.
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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]:

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

From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:

  AXE
       Application eXecution Environment
       
       

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  aXe
       
           A {text editor} for the {X Window System}.  No longer
          maintained.
       
          (1998-03-13)
       
       

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Axe
     used in the Authorized Version of Deut. 19:5; 20:19; 1 Kings
     6:7, as the translation of a Hebrew word which means "chopping."
     It was used for felling trees (Isa. 10:34) and hewing timber for
     building. It is the rendering of a different word in Judg. 9:48,
     1 Sam. 13:20, 21, Ps. 74:5, which refers to its sharpness. In 2
     Kings 6:5 it is the translation of a word used with reference to
     its being made of iron. In Isa. 44:12 the Revised Version
     renders by "axe" the Hebrew _maatsad_, which means a "hewing"
     instrument. In the Authorized Version it is rendered "tongs." It
     is also used in Jer. 10:3, and rendered "axe." The "battle-axe"
     (army of Medes and Persians) mentioned in Jer. 51:20 was
     probably, as noted in the margin of the Revised Version, a
     "maul" or heavy mace. In Ps. 74:6 the word so rendered means
     "feller." (See the figurative expression in Matt. 3:10; Luke
     3:9.)