Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Having the shape of the head of an ax.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having the form of an ax or a cleaver

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

  • adjective Shaped like the head of an ax or hatchet, as some leaves, and also certain organs of some shellfish.

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

  • adjective Shaped like the head of an axe or hatchet.

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

  • adjective having the shape of the head of an ax or cleaver

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Latin dolābra, pickax (from dolāre, to hew) + –form.]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

Latin dolabra ("mattock"), from dolo ("hew") + -form.

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