"A cutting-tool somewhat like an ax, but having the blade placed at right angles to the handle and formed…
"A cutting-tool somewhat like an ax, but having the blade placed at right angles to the handle and formed…
Before the days of sawmills, the posts and beams of a house were manually cut out of logs. In building…
"A tool adapted for molding and rabbeting, used in panel-work by coach- and pattern-makers."-Whitney,…
An axe, or ax, is an implement that is used to shape, split and cut wood, harvest timber, as a weapon…
A battle ax having no spike or beak on the opposite side, but an extremely elongated blade.
The grubber or grubbing axe is useful for uprooting trees. It is similar in shape to the ordinary pick,…
Axe-hammers of polished stone. A Neolithic age implement. Not drawn to scale.
"And she, being put forward by her mother, saith, Give me here on a platter the head of John the Baptist.…
It has a large flat blade with a straight edge. At the back is a peen or hammer head, and in the middle…
A pick with a point at one end, a transverse edge or blade at the other, and a handle inserted at the…
Illustration of a drawing in The Harley Psalter, an illuminated manuscript of the second and third decades…
Lictors were guards of magistrates who carried fasces to show power to execute. Two men, one young,…
"The wedge axe (which was one of the first American improvements in edge tools introduced into Europe)."…
A cartoon of a young man holding a pickaxe, with expletives coming out of his mouth.