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Definition of Hand axe
1. Noun. A stone tool with a cutting edge; the stone is held in the hand and used for chopping.
Definition of Hand axe
1. Noun. A stone tool make by flaking to produce an edge, used without a handle. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hand Axe
Literary usage of Hand axe
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Middle-English Dictionary: Containing Words Used by English Writers from by Francis Henry Stratmann (1891)
"89, 207. hand-ax, sb., hand-axe, HAV. 2553 ; hand- ax [bond axe, handex] ROB.
... sb., shaft of a hand-axe, BARB. xii. 57. hand-bal, sb., ball to flay -with ..."
2. Appleby's Illustrated Handbook of Machinery by Charles James Appleby (1878)
"... for 1000 ft. of leather hose mounted on springs .. ..38 Felling axe 0 Light
fire axe hand axe hand axe with belt and case Pickaxe 0 0 0 0 0 Crowbar . ..."
3. School of Forest Engineers in Spain, Indicative of a Type of a British by John Croumbie Brown (1886)
"Among the axes in this cabinet there deserve special notice the pruning hand-axe
used in ... the French hand-axe ; the common axe with one cutting edge, ..."
4. The Archaeological Journal by British Archaeological Association (1913)
"Hand-axe of drift type, site I : front and back views . . 42 Fig. 6. ... Hand-axe,
site I : front and side views. . .. .. 49 Fig. 14. ..."
5. Hand-book of the Economic Products of the Punjab: With a Combined Index and by Baden Henry Baden-Powell (1872)
"If an artist was to manufacture a gold worked hand axe, like the one sent ...
The method of working is as follows :—Suppose a hand axe is to be inlaid The ..."
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