ax

Lumberjack's bladed tool

An ax is a tool with a heavy metal blade on a handle, used for chopping wood or felling trees.

The figurative ax is a cutting instrument of another kind—to get the ax is to be fired or terminated; to have an ax to grind is to have a personal motive or grievance.

In music slang, an ax is an instrument, especially a guitar or saxophone.

Also spelled axe.

tool

hatchet

Small one-handed chopper

tomahawkIndigenous hand axe
adzeTransverse-bladed hewing implement
maulAttack with brutal force

handle · blade · head · edge · hickory · helve · poll · bit · wedge · splitting

woodcutting

chop

Quick forceful slice

splitSeparation into parts
hewCut with axe
fellTo chop down

cleave · timber · firewood · log · stump · woodpile · kindling · cordwood · splitting · felling

weapon

tomahawk

Indigenous hand axe

halberdAxe-headed infantry pike
poleaxeHafted armor-piercing weapon
throwingPropelling by arm motion

viking · warrior · berserker · executioner · beheading · melee · combat · raid · pillage · cleave

termination

cut

Severance or reduction

fireCombustion with flames
layoffTermination without cause
dismissalRemoval from position

downsizing · elimination · cancellation · sack · terminate · restructuring · redundancy · severance

guitar

electric

pickupSmall open-bed truck
shredTorn fragment
riffRepeated musical phrase

solo · amplifier · fretboard · lick · jam · rock · metal · blues · wail · six-string

symbolic

totem

Spiritual clan symbol

heraldryStudy of armorial bearings
emblemRepresentational sign or device
powerEnergy transfer rate

authority · justice · execution · sacrifice · ritual · ceremonial · mythology · Thor · Lizzie Borden · fasces

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