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..