Ax

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A tool with a bladed, usually heavy head mounted crosswise on a handle, used for felling trees or chopping wood.
  • n. Any of various bladed, hand-held implements used as a cutting tool or weapon.
  • n. Informal A sudden termination of employment: My colleague got the ax yesterday.
  • n. Slang A musical instrument, especially a guitar.
  • v. To chop or fell with or as if with an ax: axed down the saplings; axed out a foothold in the ice.
  • v. Informal To remove ruthlessly or suddenly: a social program that was axed to effectuate budget cuts.
  • idiom. ax to grind A selfish or ulterior aim: He claimed to be disinterested, but I knew he had an ax to grind.
  • v. Nonstandard Variant of ask.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. Alternative spelling of axe.
  • v. Alternative spelling of axe.
  • v. Alternative form of ask.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. 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.
  • v. To ask; to inquire or inquire of.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. An instrument used for hewing timber and chopping wood, and also as a weapon of offense.
  • To shape or trim with an ax.
  • n. An axle; an axis.
  • Obsolete or dialectal forms of ask.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. terminate
  • v. chop or split with an ax
  • n. an edge tool with a heavy bladed head mounted across a handle
  • Equivalent
    axe   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    terminate    end    hack    chop   
    Cross Reference
    Variant
    axes   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    ask   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Acts    Jacks    Macs    Max    Sachs    Saxe    acts    antitax    attacks    axe   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    axe    hatchet    shovel    chisel    hammer    spear    machete    tomahawk    dagger    hoe