Definition of axe

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Axe (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..

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Slake :: Slake (v. i.) To slacken; to become relaxed.
Deficit :: Deficit (n.) Deficiency in amount or quality; a falling short; lack; as, a deficit in taxes, revenue, etc..
Relaxed :: Relaxed (imp. & p. p.) of Rela.
Strict :: Strict (a.) Tense; not relaxed; as, a strict fiber..
Conjugate :: Conjugate (a.) Presenting themselves simultaneously and having reciprocal properties; -- frequently used in pure and applied mathematics with reference to two quantities, points, lines, axes, curves, etc..
Tax :: Tax (n.) To subject to the payment of a tax or taxes; to impose a tax upon; to lay a burden upon; especially, to exact money from for the support of government..
Lochaber Axe :: Lochaber axe () A weapon of war, consisting of a pole armed with an axhead at its end, formerly used by the Scotch Highlanders..
Spheroid :: Spheroid (n.) A body or figure approaching to a sphere, but not perfectly spherical; esp., a solid generated by the revolution of an ellipse about one of its axes..
Burden :: Burden (v. t.) To oppress with anything grievous or trying; to overload; as, to burden a nation with taxes..
Relaxable :: Relaxable (a.) Capable of being relaxed.
Bisectrix :: Bisectrix (n.) The line bisecting the angle between the optic axes of a biaxial crystal.
Auburn :: Auburn (a.) Flaxen-colored.
Soluble :: Soluble (a.) Relaxed; open or readily opened.
Axeman :: Axeman () See Ax, Axman..
Taxer :: Taxer (n.) One who taxes.
Publican :: Publican (n.) A farmer of the taxes and public revenues; hence, a collector of toll or tribute. The inferior officers of this class were often oppressive in their exactions, and were regarded with great detestation..
Collector :: Collector (n.) An officer appointed and commissioned to collect and receive customs, duties, taxes, or toll..
Charge :: Charge (v. t.) Whatever constitutes a burden on property, as rents, taxes, lines, etc.; costs; expense incurred; -- usually in the plural..
Axe :: Axe (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..
Coordinate :: Coordinate (n.) Lines, or other elements of reference, by means of which the position of any point, as of a curve, is defined with respect to certain fixed lines, or planes, called coordinate axes and coordinate planes. See Abscissa..
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