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English to English noun
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an edge tool with a heavy bladed head mounted across a handle | source: wordnet30
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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. | source: webster1913 verb
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chop or split with an ax |
• axe wood
source: wordnet30 Example:
• The NSF axed the research program and stopped funding it
source: wordnet30
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To ask; to inquire or inquire of. | source: webster1913
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