Lexicographical Neighbors of Handax
Literary usage of Handax
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Handbook for Rangers & Woodsmen by Jay Laird Burgess Taylor (1916)
"handax.—This is simply a light broadax designed for use in one hand. ... 158.
handax can be accomplished with very little more labor with a common pole-ax ..."
2. The Chronicle of Froissart by Jean Froissart (1901)
"And sol handax. they came to a lytell ryver or broke, the which went streight to
the towne, and so passed it with great trouble, ..."
3. The Autobiography of Theodore Edgar Potter by Theodore Edgar Potter (1913)
"... and having borrowed a broadax and handax, chopped down a fine spruce tree
eighteen inches in diameter and cut a log twelve feet long. ..."
4. Notes on Track: Construction and Maintenance by Walter Mason Camp (1903)
"The tools needed are a claw bar, hammer, pinch bar, adz, crosscut saw, handax
and beetle. Blocks about 8 ins. long are cut off sound straight-grained ties, ..."
5. A Handbook for Travellers in Greece: Describing the Ionian Islands by John Murray (Firm) (1872)
"II. Excursions through the island. I. This ¡-lu mI is known among its own
inhabitants only by its Greek appellation of Crete. The Saracenic J\handax, ..."
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