axe

IPA: ˈæks

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.
An ancient weapon consisting of a head that has one or two blades and a long handle.
(informal) A dismissal or rejection.
(figurative) A drastic reduction or cutback.
(slang, music) A gigging musician's particular instrument, especially a guitar in rock music or a saxophone in jazz.
(finance) A position, interest, or reason in buying and selling stock, often with ulterior motives.
(archaic) The axle of a wheel.
A river in Dorset, Somerset, and east Devon, England, which flows into Lyme Bay at Seaton.
A river in Somerset, England, which flows into the Bristol Channel at Weston-super-Mare.

(transitive) To fell or chop with an axe.
(transitive, figurative) To lay off, terminate or drastically reduce, especially in a rough or ruthless manner; to cancel.
To furnish with an axle.
(now obsolete outside dialects, especially African-American Vernacular) Alternative form of ask [(transitive or ditransitive) To request (information, or an answer to a question).]

Examples of "axe" in Sentences

The axe is heavy and sharp, and I want no mistakes.
“Bread that must be sliced with an axe is bread that is too nourishing” - Fran Lebowitz
"Now we shall have dogs, and in plenty," he remarked grimly, slipping an axe from the sled lashings.
IV. v.218 (300,8) And where the offence is, let the great axe fall] [W: tax] _Fall_ corresponds better to _axe_.
Who can say where the axe is going to fall, or which Republican challengers are going to bring their A game? scythia says:
“I took out the ice axe from the raincoat, gripped it in my hand and, with my eyes closed, dealt him a terrible blow on the head.”
I believe that one of his most famous paintings - the rider on the hill with the curved axe, is meant to depict Kane or was inspired by Kane.
Savo, a point in favour of an axe is that most training concentrates on knife defence (for close quarter work) thus an axe allows you surprise.
And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: therefore every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.