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Definition of Broadaxes
1. broadax [n] - See also: broadax
Lexicographical Neighbors of Broadaxes
Literary usage of Broadaxes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of the United States: From the Discovery of the American Continent by George Bancroft (1864)
"... giving Hutchinson and his family barely time to escape, split open his doors
with broadaxes, broke his furniture, scattered his plate and ready money, ..."
2. Essays, Historical, and Literary by John Fiske (1902)
"A few blows with broadaxes split the doors and window-shutters, and the howling,
cursing rabble swarmed in. Their approach had been heard some minutes ..."
3. The Diary of Philip Hone, 1828-1851 by Philip Hone, Bayard Tuckerman (1889)
"... the combatants were permitted to go into the combat with all kinds of weapons, —
pistols, rifles, broadswords and broadaxes, tomahawks and bowie-knives. ..."
4. The Great industries of the United States: being an historical summary of by Horace Greeley (1873)
"... so got a post office established at Collinsville. . . . Built the first
trip-hammer shop, etc. Commenced drawing axe-patterns, and making broadaxes with ..."
5. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1911)
"It had made and sold in the United States and in Australia axes, hatchets, broadaxes.
picks, and hoes which it had stamped with the name "Collins & Company ..."
6. Letters to Washington, and Accompanying Papers by George Washington, Stanislaus Murray Hamilton (1898)
"Please to Send me Up the late Act in order we may know how to proceed to Examples —
broadaxes are wanted, narrow axes I have been ..."
7. The Draft Riots in New York, July, 1863: The Metropolitan Police, Their by David M. Barnes (1863)
"The rioters had cut down over sixty poles, using broadaxes, and leveling them
close to the sidewalk; six were cut down on the Third Avenue, thirty on the ..."
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