axe

axe is a 3-letter English word with 5 senses as noun and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A tool or instrument of steel, or of iron with a steel edge or blade, for felling trees, chopping and splitting wood, hewing timber, etc. It is wielded by a wooden helve or handle, so fixed in a socket or eye as to be in the same plane with the blade. The broadax, or carpenter's ax, is an ax for hewing timber, made heavier than the chopping ax, and with a broader and thinner blade and a shorter handle. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

3 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 10 · 5 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A tool or instrument of steel, or of iron with a steel edge or blade, for felling trees, chopping and splitting wood, hewing timber, etc. It is wielded by a wooden helve or handle, so fixed in a socket or eye as to be in the same plane with the blade. The broadax, or carpenter's ax, is an ax for hewing timber, made heavier than the chopping ax, and with a broader and thinner blade and a shorter handle.
2. Alt. of Axeman
3. noun. an edge tool with a heavy bladed head mounted across a handle

   Synonyms: ax

4. verb. terminate

   "The NSF axed the research program and stopped funding it"

   Synonyms: ax

5. verb. chop or split with an ax

   "axe wood"

   Synonyms: ax

Synonyms

ax

Common word forms

axed, axer, axes, axing

Words from these letters

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