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Definition of Axe handle
1. Noun. The handle of an ax.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Axe Handle
Literary usage of Axe handle
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Engineering Facts and Figures by Andrew Betts Brown (1869)
"The sledge handle is straight and the axe handle curved. ... Now we see the reason
of the downward, inward curve of the axe handle. ..."
2. The Chinese Classics: With a Translation, Critical and Exegetical Notes by James Legge, Confucius, Mencius (1871)
"In hewing [the wood for] an axe-handle, how do you proceed? Without [another]
axe it cannot be done. In taking a wife, how do you proceed? ..."
3. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Louisiana by Louisiana Supreme Court (1894)
"... that thereupon accused's friend turned the accused loose and Labit began
striking the accused over the head with the axe handle, whereupon a struggle ..."
4. Transactions of the Third International Congress for the History of Religions by Percy Stafford Allen, John de Monins Johnson (1908)
"Ultimately a double-axe of the usual type is found serving as a symbol of the
united deities, the axehead being the male, the axe-handle the female, ..."
5. The Massachusetts Teacher by Massachusetts Teachers Federation, Massachusetts Teachers' Association (1854)
"Head his lucid discussion of the big end of the axe-handle, page 219:— " Q.
What is the name of the curve D ? (Referring to a figure. ..."
6. The Chinese Classics by Confucius, James Legge, Mencius (1870)
"In the Book of Poetry, it is said,' In hewing an axe-handle, in hewing an
axe-handle, the pattern is not far off' We grasp one axe-handle to hew the other, ..."
7. Our First Half Million: The Story of Our National Army by Captain X. (1918)
"We sent two of ouf men over to get coal and he laid them both out with an axe
handle." It developed that our sentry had seen soldiers going at a coal pile ..."
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