Definition of Hand axe

1. Noun. A stone tool with a cutting edge; the stone is held in the hand and used for chopping.

Exact synonyms: Hand Ax
Generic synonyms: Edge Tool

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

hand-tight
hand-to-hand
hand-to-hand struggle
hand-to-mouth
hand-to-mouth(a)
hand-wash
hand-waving
hand-wavy
hand-winged
hand-work
hand-wringing
hand-written
hand and foot
hand and glove
hand ax
hand axe (current term)
hand axes
hand ball
hand bill
hand bills
hand blower
hand brake
hand brakes
hand bridge
hand by a hair
hand calculator
hand cart
hand cheese
hand clapping

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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