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Definition of Double-bitted ax
1. Noun. An ax that has cutting edges on both sides of the head.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Double-bitted Ax
Literary usage of Double-bitted ax
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Handbook for Rangers & Woodsmen by Jay Laird Burgess Taylor (1916)
"double-bitted ax.—Instead of having a square or rounded pole this ax bears two
bits, both in line with the handle, and the latter, unlike that of a pole-ax, ..."
2. Logging: The Principles and General Methods of Operation in the United States by Ralph Clement Bryant (1913)
"Single-bitted ax heads cost from 60 to 75 cents each; double- bitted ax heads
from 80 cents to $i. A straight-grained ax handle of the best quality costs ..."
3. Biennial Report by California Dept. of Agriculture, California State Commission of Horticulture (1892)
"The white man, boasted champion of progress and civilization, comes to these
shores with double-bitted ax, double circulars, and band saws. ..."
4. Biennial Report by Kansas State Horticultural Society (1904)
"... prune, spray, fertilize, graft, and even girdle if necessary, and if you still
fail to get fruit, a nice double-bitted ax is in order. ..."
5. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1920)
"Developed self-reliance, eg, having chopped a finger off with a double bitted
ax, H dressed wound herself and said nothing about it to the family. ..."
6. Prehistoric Art; Or, The Origin of Art as Manifested in the Works of by Thomas Wilson, Edwin Porter Upham (1898)
"It might pass for a hatchet or double-bitted ax, the hole being drilled in the
center as for a handle, but this use is negatived by the fragility and ..."
7. Manual Training Magazine (1913)
"First there came the lumberman—perhaps the sturdy, roistering woodsman of the
North, Fig. 3, with his double-bitted ax, or perhaps a dusky-skinned laborer ..."
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