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Definition of Axlike
1. resembling an ax [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Axlike
Literary usage of Axlike
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Handbook of Aboriginal American Antiquities by William Henry Holmes (1919)
"6, axlike implement of bronze with perforate and decorated blade, Pero.
tributed along the Pacific coast and scattered sparsely over the adjacent regions to ..."
2. Dana's Manual of Mineralogy for the Student of Elementary Mineralogy, the by James Dwight Dana, William Ebenezer Ford (1912)
"The characteristic form of the class is known as a sphenoid (from a Greek word
meaning axlike). It consists of four isosceles triangular faces which ..."
3. Bulletin by Geological Survey (U.S.) (1914)
"From the sharp edge on one side such cleaved pieces show a peculiar axlike shape.
(See fig. 11, crystal 2.) The penetration twins (figs. 17,18, p. ..."
4. Occasional Papers by U.S. Army Engineer School (1919)
"... shorter than those formerly carried by the Greeks and there appeared a tendency
to add to the pikes near their heads hooklike or axlike attachments, ..."
5. Colorado Ferberite and the Wolframite Series by Frank Lee Hess, Waldemar Theodore Schaller (1914)
"From the sharp edge on one side such cleaved pieces show a peculiar axlike shape.
(See fig. 11, crystal 2.) The penetration twins(figs. ..."
6. Early Man in South America by Aleš Hrdlička, William Henry Holmes (1912)
"axlike blade of sandstone, bearing engraved design (Puerto San Bias) 144 39.
Hammer-anvil of quartzite, used secondarily as a muller (Viedma). 145 40. ..."
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