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broadax

NOUN
  1. a large ax with a broad cutting blade

How To Use broadax In A Sentence

  • We carry hand-forged broadaxes from Sweden that can be either beveled on the left or right and that come with a straight or angled handle.
  • These are called broadaxes, named for their unusually wide cutting edge.
  • The broadaxe, jarred free, skidded down the slope ahead of them and came to rest on the trail. The Gates of Thorbardin
  • Larger broadaxes, often beveled on both sides, were used by the ‘tie hacks’, who would drop a tree with a felling axe, then walk up and down it, hewing as they went.
  • The shaping of the timbers was accomplished mostly by the use of a variety of adzes, and broadaxes, each one especially designed for a specific purpose.
  • With broadaxes, adzes, and other tools of days gone by, crews continuously repair the park's buildings.
  • Makamuk swung the axe, a broadaxe for the squaring of logs. Lost Face
  • Some would chop down the trees; some would measure and cut off the logs; some would "scutch" the logs; and others would come along with a broadaxe, and hew two sides of the logs flat. Last of the Pioneers, Or Old Times in East Tenn.; Being the Life and Reminiscences of Pharaoh Jackson Chesney (Aged 120 Years).
  • Dimitri Pavlovich, obedient to Matfei's request that he put aside his anger, was trying to teach Ivan how to absorb a broadaxe blow with his shield and twist the weapon out of the enemy's hands. Enchantment
  • If you use a broadax, hew the log face perpendicular to the ground rather than parallel, as shown here.
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