Definition of Break-axe

1. Noun. West Indian timber tree having very hard wood.

Exact synonyms: Breakax, Breakaxe, Sloanea Jamaicensis
Group relationships: Genus Sloanea, Sloanea
Generic synonyms: Tree

Lexicographical Neighbors of Break-axe

breadth index
breadthen
breadthened
breadthening
breadthens
breadthless
breadths
breadthways
breadthwise
breadwinner
breadwinners
breadwinning
breadwinnings
bready
break
break-axe (current term)
break-building
break-bulk
break-circuit
break-dance
break-even
break-even point
break-even points
break-evens
break-in
break-ins
break-up
break a law
break a leg
break a sweat

Literary usage of Break-axe

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

1. Icones Plantarum: Or Figures, with Brief Descriptive Characters and Remarks ...by William Jackson Hooker by William Jackson Hooker (1844)
"Mr. Purdie speaks of it as producing one of the hardest of woods, so hard as to turn the edge of the best tempered axe, and hence its name of break-axe wood ..."

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