stone axe


noun
  1. a primitive axe made of chipped stone

  2. a blunt axe used for cutting stone

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How to use stone axe in a sentence

  • The word has come to be somewhat loosely applied to metal as well as stone axe-heads.

  • Even Ang, with his strength and cunning and great stone axe and sharp knives, was in constant danger.

    The Silent Readers | William D. Lewis
  • As she locked him in her arms to comfort him, Ang suddenly leaped out of the darkness, his great stone axe swinging in his hands.

    The Silent Readers | William D. Lewis
  • My father and I used to dress for dinner, but we always carried the stone axe under our coats.

    The Pagan Madonna | Harold MacGrath
  • Let us however look a little closer into the long, long period during which the "fire and stone-axe methods" of farming prevailed.

    The Romance of Plant Life | G. F. Scott Elliot