half-axe

Selecting a tall spruce, Amik, with a half-axe in hand, began to ascend it.

The Drama of the Forests Romance and Adventure Arthur Henry Howard Heming 1905

He had left his half-axe in camp, and when he felt in his pocket for his jack-knife it was not there.

Forest Neighbors Life Stories of Wild Animals William Davenport Hulbert 1890

For instance, there was the time when the whole family lay sprawled out on a limb of a tree, fifteen or twenty feet up from the ground, and watched the land-looker go by with his half-axe over his shoulder, his compass in his hand, and a note-book sticking out of his pocket.

Forest Neighbors Life Stories of Wild Animals William Davenport Hulbert 1890

He had an English half-axe slung to his wrist by a cord, and there were forty arrows left in his quiver; the most beautiful and warlike arrows I ever saw.

Christopher Carson 1841