Crossword clues for broadaxe
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Broadax \Broad"ax`\, Broadaxe \Broad"axe`\, broad-axe \broad-axe\, broad-ax \broad-ax\, n.
An ancient military weapon; a battle-ax.
An ax with a broad edge, for hewing timber.
Wiktionary
n. A large axe, with a broad blade, once used as a weapon and also used for hewing timber.
WordNet
n. a large ax with a broad cutting blade [syn: broadax]
Wikipedia
A broadaxe is a large (broad) headed axe. There are two categories of cutting edge on broadaxes, both are used for shaping logs by hewing. On one type, one side is flat and the other side beveled, a basilled edge, also called a side axe, single bevel, or chisle-edged axe. On the other type, both sides are beveled, sometimes called a double bevel axe, which produces a scalloped cut. On the basilled broadaxe the handle may curve away from the flat side to allow a flush stroke when hewing without injuring one's hand. The flat blade is to make the flat surface but can only be worked from one direction and are right-handed or left-handed. The double bevel axe has a straight handle can be swung with either side against the wood. A double beveled broad axe can be used for chopping or notching and hewing. When used for hewing, a notch is chopped in the side of the log down to a marked line, called scoring. The pieces of wood between these notches are removed with an axe called joggling and then the remaining wood is chopped away to the line.
Usage examples of "broadaxe".
As the victim screamed his last, the giant, quick as lightning, spun the broadaxe in a flashing circle about his head and with one hand brought the blade down with a mighty stroke.
The end was chipped square as neatly as a skilled man could have done with a broadaxe and unlimited time, but Sharina had seen the Archai use no tools save their own forelimbs.
The unfortunate was marched to the center of the ring, where the giant with the broadaxe waited between the two horses.
Above you and around you are beams and joists, on some of which you may see, when the light is let in, the marks of the conchoidal clippings of the broadaxe, showing the rude way in which the timber was shaped as it came, full of sap, from the neighboring forest.
About seventy miles up the stream there stands an old cedar-tree bearing, as it is believed by antiquarians, the blaze marks of the old French broadaxes and marking the beginning of another of those historic portage paths over the valley's low rim.
It was all of gray stone and decorated with displays of broadaxes, battle-axes and headsmen's axes.
They were armed: leather jackets and caps, spears, wooden shields, a scattering of the broadaxes they used to shape their boats and houses.
She'd gone through the routine power-up checklist and transferred, with the rest of the Broadaxes and the 181st, to another ship)—a Dreadnaught, older than the Empire, named Reprisal.
I collected the most valuable of the hand tools—the froe and drawing knife by the sawhorse, the foot adze and broadaxe by the sections of split cedar—stowed them in the old hogpen, and walked into the forest.