broadax

or broad·axe

[ brawd-aks ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

, plural broad·ax·es [brawd, -ak-siz].

Origin of broadax¹

before 1000; Middle English brodax, Old English brādæx. See broad, ax

A broadax was, you know, twelve or fourteen inches wide and the handle was curved a little.

We had a broadax and we drove it into a block of wood and used it for an anvil.

The joists above and below were made of logs, the upper ones squared with a broadax.

Our table was made of puncheons split with a wedge and hewed with a broadax.

Our floor was of maple split with wedges and hewed out with a broadax.

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