axeblade
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The blade of an axe
The blade of an axe; or, a blade identical to that of an axe, but not actually part of one.
- 1904, Terrot Reaveley Glover, Studies in Virgil, reprinted as Virgil, Barnes & Noble (1969), page 198, This image, topped by a head as featureless as an axeblade, spoke in words condensed from scalding steam.
- 1959, Frank Yerby, Jarrett's Jade: A Novel, Dial Press, page 19, James took a step forward, his dark eyes bright under that jutting hedgerow of a brow that swept across his forehead without a break even above his axeblade of a nose.
- 2006, Hugh Cook, The Witchlord and the Weaponmaster, Lulu Press, Inc., →ISBN, page 307, The dwarf hacked at Sod's boot, sinking his axeblade deep into the Banker's foot.
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