broadax , auch: broadaxe

They were as much a weapon to them as a broadax.

A Russian insult is a broadax, or maybe just an ax handle.

He stood dead still, his lips pressed into a line, and glared with all the appeal of a broadax.

The logs were squared off by somebody who knew how to use an adze and a broadax.

The racket whacked at me sideways, wielded this time like a broadax.

Today he carved out the Republican position with a broadax, offering an amendment that would have automatically registered every member of the armed services.

"He says, 'What I'd really like to have is a good broadax.' "

Probably with a broadax, in fact.

The back was crossed with a patterned grid of bars that made it strong enough to turn a broadax swing.

Red hair flying, he led his soldiers into the tangle of giant arms, cutting and hacking with a broadax.

He was sometimes credited as "Al Broadax."

In places it seemed as though the rock had been hewn away with a broadax, in others hacked at with a pick.

The monster swung the red-haired Dwarf high into the air, unaffected by the broadax that still flailed in stubborn determination.

Huri-Kamo had already broken through the locker door with the broadax that was the traditional Wyvilo weapon.

It was obvious in the way he held his weapon- some sort of broadax- and in the way he scrutinized the carts full of medical supplies.

With Broadax and Firebrand: The Destruction of the Brazilian Atlantic Forest (1997)

In the early 1980s, Broadax recommended to Marks that he should try writing for Marvel Productions, who were looking to bring Spider-Man back to the screen.

One can imagine the skilled builders, using only hand tools - adz, maul, broadax and auger - constructing the lattice on the bank of the river or in a nearby field.

This was supposed to be the Lizzie Borden of Congresses, the one whose fiscal broadax would whack away at friend and foe alike in the name of a balanced budget.

These lumberjacks, called tie hacks, used saws to fell trees and cut to length, and a broadax to flatten two or all four sides of the log to create railroad ties.

His final book, "With Broadax and Firebrand: The Destruction of the Brazilian Atlantic Coast Forest," is to be published later this year by the University of California Press.

Though after returning to New York from his honeymoon, Broadax offered Marks the screenwriting duties for a cartoon based on The Beatles, which decided Marks' career choice as a cartoon writer.

I also learned to tinker with brazing, to repair small gasoline motors, to wire a house, to cut and glaze glass and to use spokeshave and drawknife, ax and broadax, adz and froe.

His dissertation, a study of the role of the peacetime army in the settlement process, was published in 1953 as Broadax and Bayonet: The Role of the United States Army in the Development of the Northwest, 1815-1860.

It still stood there, the one reminder of the days of old, the one thing left of Earth, with its great, scarred oak mantel that his father had carved out with a broadax from a massive log and had smoothed by hand with plane and draw-shave.