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Definition of Break-axe
1. Noun. West Indian timber tree having very hard wood.
Exact synonyms: Breakax, Breakaxe, Sloanea Jamaicensis
Group relationships: Genus Sloanea, Sloanea
Generic synonyms: Tree
Group relationships: Genus Sloanea, Sloanea
Generic synonyms: Tree
Lexicographical Neighbors of Break-axe
Literary usage of Break-axe
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Icones Plantarum: Or Figures, with Brief Descriptive Characters and Remarks ...by William Jackson Hooker by William Jackson Hooker (1844)
"Mr. Purdie speaks of it as producing one of the hardest of woods, so hard as to
turn the edge of the best tempered axe, and hence its name of break-axe wood ..."
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