Axe
A tool or instrument of steel, or of iron with a steel edge or blade, for felling trees, chopping and splitting wood, hewing timber, etc. It is wielded by a wooden helve or handle, so fixed in a socket or eye as to be in the same plane with the blade. The broadax, or carpenter's ax, is an ax for hewing timber, made heavier than the chopping ax, and with a broader and thinner blade and a shorter handle.
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Axe Quotations
Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.
Albert Einstein
Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
Abraham Lincoln
If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let us fall by the axe and not by the butcher's cleaver.
Lord Byron
About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain to try to do it with ten blunt axes instead.
Edsger Dijkstra
I knew there was an old axe down cellar; that is all I knew.
Lizzie Andrew Borden
If anybody says their facelift doesn't hurt, they're lying. It was like I'd spent the night with an axe murderer.
Sharon Osbourne
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Axe Translations
axe in Dutch is hakbijl, bijl
axe in French is hache
axe in German is Axt {f}, Beil {n}
axe in Latin is securis
axe in Portuguese is machado
axe in Spanish is hacha
axe in Swedish is yxa
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