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It may take a bough
Answer for the clue "It may take a bough ", 3 letters:
axe
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN ice ▪ Straps/attachment points: ice axe loop and snap. ▪ He urged mountain users to be properly equipped, saying crampons and an ice axe were essential. ▪ A full rack should be taken and ice axes and crampons may ...
Usage examples of axe.
The other two aborigines, their luminous eyes aglow, drew their own axes from the back-sheaths and slipped away.
One man, using a chert adze and axe, was building a short-legged bamboo bed.
The explorers had made their voyages, planted their colonists in the West, left their sons, their axes, and their carved runes in Alata and retreated from it, leaving only legends in the land that was not for them.
As a result of this, Herminis ended up at the Avenging Axe and Lisutaris prevailed on me to help hide her from the authorities.
I cares about the two young lads we axed, about Makareta, my unborn child, Hawk, even Mary!
The only relief was a pair of crossed golden axes embroidered across his left breast.
He clenched his right hand into a fist above the golden axes on his left breast in the traditional salute of the Axe-Wielders and bowed low before Priam.
Axis bowed slightly to Jayme and Moryson, his right fist clenched over the golden axes on his breast, then he strode from the room, his boot heels clicking sharply on the stone floor.
More men than usual made a prominent display of weapon practice with their axes as the cooks hurried to prepare the evening meal.
All three turned to look for their axes, but the ground was heaving and buckling even more violently and their axes had completely disappeared underneath the loose covering of leaves and pines needles that littered the surface.
For a few heartbeats longer they stood, swords in hand, chests heaving as they fought to recover their breath, watching the ground where their axes had disappeared, hardly able to comprehend what had happened.
Whyso it is saidone day Axemen five thousand strong surrounded the Woods with their axes and tried to cut their way through.
The unspoken thought passed between themwhy had the Woods taken the axes yet let the men live to reach the Keep?
He had recognised the black uniform emblazoned with the twin axes as soon as the man had stepped into the cellar.
Your people have murdered with their axes most of the once great Avarinheim as they once murdered the Icarii and Avar.