Definitions for hand-ax

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hand-ax hand ax

Hand-Ax is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 48 anagrams from letters in hand-ax (-aadhnx).

Definitions for hand-ax

noun

1. Also, hand axe. a usually large, general-purpose bifacial Paleolithic stone tool, often oval or pear-shaped in form and characteristic of certain Lower Paleolithic industries.
2. broad hatchet.

Origin of hand-ax

before 1000; Middle English, Old English

Examples for hand-ax

They were the thieves, who had fallen upon me with the hand ax.

Compound in bulk or in thin iron barrels can be cut into small pieces with a hatchet or hand ax.