English Explanatory Dictionary

hand axe

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A stone tool made by flaking to produce an edge, used without a handle.
  2. A hatchet or throwing axe.

Word forms

hand axe hand axes hand-axe handaxe hand ax hand-ax handax

Etymology

From Middle English hand-ax, handax, handex, hond axe, from Old English handæx, from Proto-Germanic *handakwisī; equivalent to hand + axe.

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