Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • See ax.
  • noun ax.
  • See ax.
  • noun An English name of a native species of Lobelia, L. urens.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • See ax, axman.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb Alternative form of ask.
  • noun archaic The axle of a wheel.
  • verb To furnish with an axle.
  • noun A tool for felling trees or chopping wood etc. consisting of a heavy head flattened to a blade on one side, and a handle attached to it.
  • noun An ancient weapon consisting of a head that has one or two blades and a long handle.
  • noun informal A dismissal or rejection.
  • noun slang, music A gigging musician's particular instrument, especially a guitar in rock music or a saxophone in jazz.
  • verb transitive To fell or chop with an axe.
  • verb transitive To terminate or reduce tremendously in a rough or ruthless manner.
  • verb transitive To lay off: to terminate a person's employment

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb chop or split with an ax
  • verb terminate
  • noun an edge tool with a heavy bladed head mounted across a handle

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  • On the internet one may find an axe in the head.

    December 19, 2007

  • why don't you use that sentence in the haiku list bilby - it's 5 syllables? and such lovely ones to.

    December 19, 2007

  • Now that's useful stuff, bilby. ;-)

    December 19, 2007

  • Some people do these to questions.

    October 10, 2008

  • "See ax, axman."

    --GNU Webster's 1913

    April 15, 2011

  • Much classier than ax.

    Especially if you have to give someone the ___

    October 8, 2020