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Definition of Broadaxe
1. Noun. A large ax with a broad cutting blade.
Definition of Broadaxe
1. Noun. A large axe, with a broad blade, once used as a weapon and also used for hewing timber. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Broadaxe
1. broadax [n -S] - See also: broadax
Lexicographical Neighbors of Broadaxe
Literary usage of Broadaxe
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Red Axe by Samuel Rutherford Crockett (1898)
"CHAPTER XXIII HUGO OF THE broadaxe BUT as for me, sleep I could not. And indeed
that is small wonder. For it was the first night I had ever slept out of the ..."
2. Arbitrary Arrests in the South; Or, Scenes from the Experience of an Alabama by Robert Seymour Symmes Tharin (1863)
"The next issue of the Richmond Palladium showed the admission of the broadaxe of
its own falsity, and derided the position of the editor, who had charged me ..."
3. Triumphs of Enterprise, Ingenuity, and Public Spirit by James Parton (1871)
"Fillmore instantly caught up the broadaxe, and with one blow clove the ...
Fillmore swung his broadaxe round with such tremendous force against the back of ..."
4. Report of the ... Annual Meeting of the Canadian Forestry Association by Canadian Forestry Association (1900)
"Then the hewer follows with his broadaxe and hews off all wood left by the scorer
down to the line, and obliterates all traces of the scores made by the ..."
5. Sunset by Southern Pacific Company, Southern Pacific Company. Passenger Dept (1914)
"Governor Johnson did not merely defeat the Old Guard; he chased it up a tree,
sawed off the limb and used a broadaxe on the fallen enemy. ..."
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