axe
Feller's heavy blade
An axe is a tool with a heavy metal blade on a wooden handle, used for chopping wood or felling trees.
The figurative axe is a cutting instrument of a different sort—to get the axe is to be fired or eliminated, and to have an axe to grind is to have a personal agenda.
In music slang, an axe is a guitar.
Also spelled ax.
Professional tree cutter
- timberWood for construction
- firewoodCut logs for burning
- fellingDowning standing timber
- splittingDividing into parts
cleave · log · woodcutter · kindling · swing · hack · hew · sever
Indigenous hand axe
Boundary or sharpness
- whetstoneStone for sharpening blades
- honeMake keener or better
- grindstoneRotating stone for sharpening
- bladeFlat cutting edge
sharpening · strop · keen · cutting · bevel · grind · file · temper
Terminating employment
- layoffTermination without cause
- downsizingReducing workforce or scale
- redundancyNeedless duplication
- terminationAct of ending something
severance · sacking · cutback · restructuring · canned · headcount · cost-cutting · eliminated
Outdoor fire for gathering
- wildernessUncultivated, uninhabited natural region
- shelterProtected place or structure
- firewoodCut logs for burning
- bushcraftWilderness survival skill set
foraging · hunting · backcountry · preparedness · self-sufficiency · batoning · kindling · emergency
hatchet
Small one-handed chopper
head · wedge · adze · mattock · tomahawk · maul · poll · bit · helve · froe
lumberjack
Professional tree cutter
splitting · cleave · log · woodcutter · kindling · swing · hack · hew · sever · bucking
tomahawk
Indigenous hand axe
combat · medieval · Viking · melee · warrior · armory · siege
edge
Boundary or sharpness
- whetstoneStone for sharpening blades
- honeMake keener or better
- grindstoneRotating stone for sharpening
blade · sharpening · strop · keen · cutting · bevel · grind · file · temper · steel
firing
Terminating employment
- layoffTermination without cause
- downsizingReducing workforce or scale
- redundancyNeedless duplication
termination · severance · sacking · cutback · restructuring · canned · headcount · cost-cutting · eliminated · cancelled
campfire
Outdoor fire for gathering
- wildernessUncultivated, uninhabited natural region
- shelterProtected place or structure
- firewoodCut logs for burning
bushcraft · foraging · hunting · backcountry · preparedness · self-sufficiency · batoning · kindling · emergency · outdoors
Viking
Medieval Nordic raider
warrior · battle · execution · power · authority · totem · tribal · mythology · heraldry · Aztec
electric
Powered by current
riff · solo · rock · metal · Stratocaster · amp · pickup · whammy · lick · chops
- campingtent, campfire, campsite, campground, sleeping bag
- game itemspotion, health potion, mana potion, power-up, extra life
- VikingsViking, longships, longship, raiding, Norse settlers
- weaponsknife, gun, sword, swords, rifle
- ancient weaponssword, swords, shield, shields, bow
- cabin supplieswood stove, fireplace, lantern, oil lamp, kerosene heater
- axe murdererOne who kills with a chopping tool
- battle axeHeavy bladed war weapon
- axe to grindHidden personal agenda
- an axe to grindSecret selfish agenda
- throwing axeBlade hurled at targets
- fire axeEmergency breaching tool
axes, axed, pickaxe, battle-axe, ice axe, axeman, axemen, broadaxe, axehead