What is "axhead"

Usage examples of "axhead".

The axhead had come up against a wall of banked earth, and here he touched the bottom rung of a wooden ladder.

She tumbled end over end down the slope, certain that the Klingon would bury his axhead in her back at any moment.

The trooper next to him took the blow on her saber, under the axhead, bringing her shield arm around to immobilize it.

Barrjen skipped aside with a curse as the axhead whipped past him and bounced off the wall, leaving a streak of shiny metal scraped free of paint on the wall.

He had hoped to cast an axhead, his first, this evening, but maybe it was better to do the job by daylight.

Just as a twinge in wrist or elbow would have warned him instantly of damage, some faint vibration, some subtle shift in weight arrested him in midswing, so that the loosened axhead flew harmlessly across the clearing, rather than slamming into his vulnerable foot.

The dry wood split and spread, but held by the iron enclosure of the axhead, could not splinter.

On it lay a figure so heavily draped in copper ornament that Adica could barely make out that she had hair and features beneath a headdress of beaten copper, a broad pectoral, armbands, bracelets and a wide waistband worked into the shape of two axheads crossing.

Maybe, too, they are like old man Joa, who buried ten skins and six stone axheads in the ground so nobody else could have them.

More than one large cat had been unpleasantly surprised by sword-wielding chimps protecting their young and infirm, and most of the clans loved steel axheads and saws.

The sudden brightness gleamed off spearheads, axheads, swordguards, shield bosses, where weapons rested near the entry.

In his left hand he held a short spear, the blade of which seemed to be fashioned of chipped flint, or some other hard and shining stone, and in the girdle of his kilt was thrust a wooden-handled instrument or ax, made by setting a great, sharp-edged stone that must have weighed two pounds or so into the cleft end of the handle which was lashed with sinews both above and below the axhead.