Lexic.us

Definition of Ax handle

1. Noun. The handle of an ax.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ax Handle

Literary usage of Ax handle

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Voice of the Negro 1919 by Robert Thomas Kerlin (1920)
""Dayton Merchant Beat Race Woman with ax handle Because She Desired to Exchange Shoes "Special to The Informer. "Dayton, Texas, Nov. 5, 1919. ..."

2. An Illustrated History of Monroe County, Iowa: A Complete Civil, Political by Frank Hickenlooper (1896)
"... counter with an ax-handle, and whenever a member of the crowd of combatants circled within reach of his ax-handle, the handle came down without stint on ..."

3. The Kentucky Law Reporter by Kentucky Court of Appeals (1903)
"... and that a negro man attacked defendant with an ax handle; that defendant drew his pistol and Murphy interfered and undertook to disarm the accused, ..."

4. The Principles of Education by Jesse Harliaman Coursault (1920)
"The curves of an ax handle would be just as graceful, if reversed, ... It would be uncomfortable to use such an ax handle. For the same reason, ..."

5. Annual Report on Introduction of Domestic Reindeer Into Alaska by Sheldon Jackson, United States Bureau of Education (1906)
"... where to prepare the trail and then cut on his way back, lie had done very well, but his ax handle broke and he had to return with the job unfinished. ..."

6. Junior High School Mathematics by George Wentworth, David Eugene Smith, Joseph Clifton Brown (1917)
"A woodsman steps off a distance of 30 ft. from a tree, faces the tree, and holds his ax handle at arm's length in front of him parallel to the tree. ..."

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