Axes

Examples

• They have a kind of hard flints, which, by grinding against other stones, they form into instruments, that serve instead of wedges, axes, and hammers. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• I feel the rack pass over my body like the saws, and harrows, and axes of iron over the men of Rabbah, and of the cities of the children of Ammon! Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• In all modern mills these have been entirely displaced by porcelain rolls revolving on horizontal axes and crushing the grain between them. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The crew had been able to muster but six firearms, so most of them were armed with boat hooks, axes, hatchets and crowbars. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• These were probably used as hand-axes. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• He had no tools to work with except those of the pioneers--axes, picks, and spades. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• A sort of rough court was constituted, and outside gathered a wild mob armed with sabres, pikes, and axes. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• They never made hafted axes or the like that would enable them to deal with timber. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

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