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  • noun Plural form of axman.

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Examples

  • At 2:32, Matthew got an email saying his meeting with Knolton and his axmen had been canceled.

    The Cure for Modern Life Lisa Tucker 2008

  • At 2:32, Matthew got an email saying his meeting with Knolton and his axmen had been canceled.

    The Cure for Modern Life Lisa Tucker 2008

  • Others were instructed to use their shields to protect the axmen, “all of which they carried out very promptly.”

    Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008

  • Boone led about thirty axmen through the wilderness to clear a path, which eventually became a route to the new frontier and was called the Wilderness Road.

    History of American Women Maggiemac 2008

  • Others were instructed to use their shields to protect the axmen, “all of which they carried out very promptly.”

    Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008

  • At 2:32, Matthew got an email saying his meeting with Knolton and his axmen had been canceled.

    The Cure for Modern Life Lisa Tucker 2008

  • One more locked door, which the axmen following him would splinter in a few heartbeats.

    Shield of Thunder Gemmell, David 2006

  • The axmen were ordered up, and while they were clearing away the obstructions I rode ahead with the cavalry to the summit, and some four miles on the ridge beyond.

    The Citizen-Soldier or, Memoirs of a Volunteer John Beatty

  • I have a hundred axmen in my charge, felling timber on the mountain, and constructing rough breastworks to protect our left flank.

    The Citizen-Soldier or, Memoirs of a Volunteer John Beatty

  • Cutting down trees in a hurry is one thing, but cutting them down in face of hidden rifle-fire is most decidedly another, especially when the axmen have been promised there will be no reprisals.

    The Eye of Zeitoon Mundy, Talbot, 1879-1940 1920

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