axman
AmericanOther Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of axman
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
See Examples For:
Not far from Mr. Petty’s right side was his right-hand man, guitarist Mike Campbell, sporting a black leather jacket and a top hat worth of fellow axman Slash.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 2, 2017
In the heat of the competition, the axman came perilously close to clipping the sawman.
From Time Magazine Archive
In 1894 he got a job as axman in one of the surveying crews working on the drainage canal.
From Time Magazine Archive
Milwaukee, Wis. Line of the Year "My Little Saw" No anti-Axis axman he, Who sawed down that cherry tree.
From Time Magazine Archive
The inside of the log walls had been carefully and smoothly finished by some master axman.
From The Rangeland Avenger by Max Brand
The presence of Clapton and other noted axmen on the album informed Robertson's own playing.
From Reuters ● Apr. 7, 2011
And he had to chop a path through the forests along the entire distance with 300 axmen.
From National Geographic
One tall tree toppled by New Deal axmen in 1932 was lugubrious, bony, prophetic Reed Smoot, Utah Senator since 1903.
From Time Magazine Archive
To defend groves threatened by the utility's axmen, women residents of the valley threatened to lash themselves to the trees.
From Time Magazine Archive
Swarms of Indian scouts and skirmishers preceded the army and Canadian axmen cut a way for the artillery, but to Robert's great amazement these operations lasted only a short time.
From The Masters of the Peaks A Story of the Great North Woods by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler
Random Word
Spin the wheel and learn a new word!
Get a wordDefinitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
