单词 | narrow axe |
释义 | > as lemmasnarrow axe narrow axe n. U.S. an axe with a narrow head, used primarily for chopping; opposed to broad-axe n. ΚΠ 1641 in J. H. Trumbull Public Rec. Colony of Connecticut (1850) I. 444 A broad axe, 2 narrow axes, wimbell & chessells. 1755 in S. M. Hamilton Lett. to Washington (1898) I. 136 Broadaxes are wanted, narrow axes I have been obligd to order some to be made. 1980 W. Renfroe tr. H. Delbruck Hist. Art War 53 The celts, which are found in stone, bronze and iron, have the shape of a narrow axe that is placed on the shaft not perpendicularly but in extension of the shaft. < as lemmas |
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