stone axe
Britishnoun
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a primitive axe made of chipped stone
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a blunt axe used for cutting stone
Example Sentences
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Authorities caught Fenn on tape, Dokoupil writes, bragging about digging in Arizona and taking a stone axe from a corpse.
From The Guardian
Felling a single four-foot tree with an indigenous stone axe would take uy hours—nearly three weeks of eight-hour days.
From Literature
Closer analysis suggested it could be a chip hewn off the blade of a stone axe as it was re-sharpened.
From BBC
And it doesn’t stop there: Wehrle produces precisely carved stone axe heads, knives and stone implements called “celts,” a later style of ax head.
From Washington Times
A series of video walk-throughs of Survival Island 3 posted to YouTube have been removed by the user ‘R2 Darksaber’ since it was linked to by New Matilda; in one, R2 Darksaber reportedly explained he was “searching for natives” in the game before before beating to death an Aboriginal man with a stone axe.
From The Guardian
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