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ˈbroad-axe
An axe with a broad head, used for hewing timber, and formerly in war.
1352Minot Poems (1825) 29 To batail..With brade ax, and with bowes bent. c1400Epiph. 737 (Turnb. 1843) Summe had twybyll, brodax, and nawger. c1450Gloss. Garlande in Wright Voc. 137 Dolabra, (gloss.) brode axe. 1530Palsgr. 201/2 Broode axe, hache large. 1855W. Sargent Braddock's Exped. 84 A roof of puncheons, rudely shaped with the broad-axe. 1876Bancroft Hist. U.S. III. xvi. 494 They..split open his doors with broad-axes. |