Word Finder - axe

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A tool for felling trees or chopping wood etc. consisting of a heavy head flattened to a blade on one side, and a handle attached to it.

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An ancient weapon consisting of a head that has one or two blades and a long handle.

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A dismissal or rejection.

example

His girlfriend/boss/schoolmaster gave him the axe.

synonyms

• boot
• chop
• pink slip
• sack

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A gigging musician's particular instrument, especially a guitar in rock music or a saxophone in jazz.

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A position, interest, or reason in buying and selling stock, often with ulterior motives.

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A financial dealer has an axe in a stock that his buyers don't know about, giving him an advantage in making the most profit.

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To fell or chop with an axe.

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To lay off, terminate or drastically reduce, especially in a rough or ruthless manner; to cancel.

example

He got axed in the last round of firings.

synonyms

• downsize
• fire
• lay off

A moment later, he dropped the axe and ran.

He hefted an axe.

She gripped the handle of the axe more tightly, hands clammy.

The owner of the axe, as he released his hold on it, said that it was the apple of his eye; but I returned it sharper than I received it.

Claire's body rose and grabbed an axe.

A "hatchet" is a small sort of axe.

Bruce evaded his spear and slew him with an axe stroke; the axe shaft broke in his hand.

Sometimes a rambler in the wood was attracted by the sound of my axe, and we chatted pleasantly over the chips which I had made.

I had an old axe which nobody claimed, with which by spells in winter days, on the sunny side of the house, I played about the stumps which I had got out of my bean-field.

The headsman's axe proved more fatal, and the martyr's body was borne by angels to Mount Sinai, where Justinian I.

How clearly he read the causes of religious decadence, how deeply he himself was convinced of the need of trenchant reform, is best shown by his instructions to Chieregati, his nuncio to Germany, in which he laid the axe to the root of the tree with unheard-of freedom.

There is a tradition that the battle of Brunanburh was fought in the valley of the Axe, and that the bodies of the Danish princes who perished in action were buried in Axminster church.

On that occasion, apparently by way of protest against the decree of the diet of Vesteras (r 5th of January 1 544), declaring the Swedish crown hereditary in Gustavus's family, the Danish king caused to be quartered on his daughter's shield not only the three Danish lions and the Norwegian lion with the axe of St Olaf, but also "the three crowns" of Sweden.

Within the precincts of the city the axe was removed, in recognition of the right of appeal (provocatio) to the people in a matter of life and death; outside Rome, however, each consul retained the axe, and was preceded by his own lictors, not merely by a single accensus (supernumerary), as was originally the case within the city when he was not officiating.

Making another hole directly over it with an ice chisel which I had, and cutting down the longest birch which I could find in the neighborhood with my knife, I made a slip-noose, which I attached to its end, and, letting it down carefully, passed it over the knob of the handle, and drew it by a line along the birch, and so pulled the axe out again.

Take the scallop to him to obtain the Golden Axe.

The Viscount Stafford was one of the "five Popish lords" committed to the Tower in 1678 as a result of the slanders of Titus Oates and he died by the axe in 1680 upon testimony which, as the diarist Evelyn protested, "should not be taken against the life of a dog."

From the girdle hung the single-edged missile axe or francisca, the scramasax or short knife, a poniard and such articles of toilet as scissors, a comb (of wood or bone), &c. The Franks also used a weapon called the framea (an iron lance set firmly in a wooden shaft), and bows and arrows.

In this case "the Synagogue of the Libertines" is the assembly of "the Freedmen" from Rome, descendants of the Jews enslaved by Pompey after his conquest of Judaea 63 B.C. If, however, we take Ac13EpTLvwv Kai Kvprivaiwv Kai AXE avbpLov closely together, the first name must denote the people of some city or district.

Axminster (Axemystre) derives its name from the river Axe and from the old abbey church or minster said to have been built by King lEthelstan.

From the finds in Bavarian graves it appears that the chief weapons were the dagger and the long pointed Paistab (palstave), while a short dagger fixed like an axe on a long shaft is characteristic of the North.

The weapons are the spat ha, or double-bladed German sword, the sax (a short sword, or long knife, semispathium), the knife, shield, and the favorite German axe, though this latter is not found in Bavaria.

The use of harpoons and small chisels of copper next arose, then broad flaying knives, needles and adzes, lastly the axe when the metal was commoner.

Mr. Livingstone was killed by a blow from an axe and decapitated in the presence of his wife.

The bold and patriotic Crabbe contrived to board the bewitched flagship, and was seen apparently laying about him with an axe on the water - which the spectators took to be a proof either that he was mad, or that this was the devil in his shape.

The flat axes are distinguished by the side stops and in some cases the transition from palstave to socketed axe can be seen.

To the west stretches the valley of the river Axe, broad, low and flat.

He is pictured as having seven mouths, a hundred wings and horns and is armed with bow and arrows and an axe.

After Black Hawk's defeat on the Bad Axe he fled to the Wisconsin river Dalles, near the present Kilbourn, where he was betrayed by the Winnebago.

But when the earl changed his politics and f6ught on the Lancastrian side at St Albans in 1455, the baron at once became a strenuous adherent of the duke, adhered firmly to the white rose and died by the axe for its cause.

They go habitually armed with scimitar and half-moon axe, besides gun or rifle.

She snagged an axe and went to the forest, trailed by vamps that had drawn closer at the scent of blood.

But this balance was upset by the early introduction of the goat and later of the camel, which destroyed the sapling trees, while the grown ones fell to the axe of the woodcutter.

The social reformer of the past is depicted as a dour spinster wielding an axe to break barrels of "Demon Rum."

There is no rawness nor imperfection in its edge there, as where the axe has cleared a part, or a cultivated field abuts on it.

There were marks of an axe and of woodpeckers on the butt.

The show got the axe the following year after only 22 episodes.

Axe Tag requires 3 to 4 players and is a lot like Hide-N-Seek.

A dictator, as taking the place of the two consuls, had 24 fasces (including the axe even within the city); most of the other magistrates had fasces varying in number, with the exception of the censors, who, as possessing no executive authority, had none.

It appears as a series of rounded hills of no great elevation, running in a curve from the mouth of the Axe to Flamborough Head, roughly parallel with the Oolitic escarpment.

Her last English partisans, attainted men who had lost their lands and lived with the shadow of the axe ever before them, fought bitterly enough.

The district has given its name to a celebrated type of axe, consisting of a long shaft with a blade like a scythe and a large hook behind it, which, according to Sir Walter Scott, was introduced into the Highlands and Ireland from Scandinavia.

When it began to eat, one of the family of the Thaulonidae advanced with an axe, slew the ox, then immediately threw away the axe and fled.

The axe, as being polluted by murder, was now carried before the court of the Prytaneum (which tried inanimate objects for homicide) and there charged with having caused the death of the ox, for which it was thrown into the sea.

Henry, and fleeing westward was again decisively defeated on the Mississippi at the mouth of the Bad Axe river (on the 1st and 2nd of August) by General Henry Atkinson.

Their occupation was hunting and war; their arms the bow, spear, axe, a half shield, nearly in the shape of a crescent, called pelta, and in early art a helmet, the model before the Greek mind having apparently been the goddess Athena.

Every man has a stone axe, each village generally owning a large one.

When he grew old he handed over the supreme power to his favourite son Erik "Bloody Axe," whom he intended to be his successor.

As for the nobility, his only thought was to diminish their power by multiplying their number, as his predecessors had done; while he reduced the rebels to submission by his iron cages or the axe of his gossip Tristan Lermite.

No one thing in the world is ever abruptly separated, as by the blow of an axe, from the rest of things.