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[ noun ] an edge tool with a heavy bladed head mounted across a handle

Synonyms

ax

Used in print

(Frank Getlein and Harold C. Gardiner, S.J., Movies,...)

The unfortunate queen mounted the scaffold ; the headsman swung his axe ; the head dropped off ; end of film .

(W. H. Gass, "The Pedersen Kid," in The...)

Hans got an axe .

Take the axe .

Pa 's scared to hell of axes '' .

It should have been nearly as easy for her to remember that as it was for Big_Hans to remember going_after the axe while he was still spattered with Pa 's yellow sick insides .

Related terms

edge_tool hatchet ice_ax common_ax broadax double-bitted_ax fireman's_ax poleax haft ax_handle blade ax_head ax

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[ noun ] Last name, frequency rank in the U.S. is 29352
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[ verb ] chop or split with an ax, as of wood

Synonyms

ax

Related terms

chop ax

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[ verb ] terminate, as of a project or a program

Synonyms

ax

Examples

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

Related terms

end end

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Rhymes with

acts ax x. sacs tacks max macks whacks pacts wax facts macs lax saxe lacks sax packs tax pax fax pacs backs mac's pac's jacks jack's flax stacks slacks relax ajax galax xanax earwax borax tampax surtax anthrax thorax knickknacks syntax climax halifax overtax fosamax parallax prothorax zovirax

Phonetic and Homophones

AE1 K S ax  Acts  x.

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