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Definition of Hand ax
1. Noun. A stone tool with a cutting edge; the stone is held in the hand and used for chopping.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hand Ax
Literary usage of Hand ax
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions by Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers (1853)
"... The heavy dush, that he him gave, That near the head till the horns clave.
The hand-ax shaft ... But mainit 1 his hand-ax shaft sae Was with the ..."
2. The Bruce: Or, The Book of the Most Excellent and Noble Prince, Robert de by John Barbour, John Lydgate (1894)
"268, 13. 368; inh on hand, undertook, 14. 10. Hand-ax, s. hand-axe, 5. 606.
Hand-ax-schaft, s. shaft of a battle- axe, 12. 57, 97. ..."
3. The Cry for Justice: An Anthology of the Literature of Social Protest; the by Upton Sinclair (1915)
"And would you think it, they fell on me with a hand ax! I warned them. ...
I was pretty hot—on account of the hand ax, you remember. You devils, I cried, ..."
4. Chief Contemporary Dramatists, Second Series: Eighteen Plays from the Recent by Thomas Herbert Dickinson (1921)
"I was pretty hot... on account of the hand ax, you remember. ... These, my
daughter, were the thieves [laughs] who had fallen upon me with the hand ax. ..."
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