How To Use Broadax In A Sentence
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The blades of broadaxes can range from six to over twelve inches, and can weigh anywhere from two to over seven pounds.
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The coopers in the Historic Area of Colonial Williamsburg shape their staves with broadaxes, planes, and drawknives, and then gather them in a circle secured by a ring.
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But it does demonstrate the need to take on that task with a scalpel and not a broadaxe.
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A broadaxe de - scended and crunched into the ground, barely missing both of them, and Wingover's hold slipped.
The Gates of Thorbardin
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Carpenter's broadaxes are designed with shorter handles than lumbermen's adzes.
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The legionnaires dropped pike and sword, shield and broadaxe, and fled before the reckless barbarians, the fleet Plainsmen.
The Dark Queen
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If Matfei hadn't been king, he wouldn't be standing here now in the practice yard of the fortress, watching this long-limbed stranger make an ass of himself with sword and broadaxe alike, knowing that he was appointed by some cruel fate -- or merciless enemy -- to be the father of Matfei's grandchildren and the leader of his people in war.
Enchantment
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The Boston mob broke down the doors with broadaxes, destroyed the furniture, stole the jewels and money, scattered the papers and books, drank the wine in the cellar and dismantled the roof and walls.
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Loggers downed trees with broadaxes during the winter, honed them by hand to the right dimension, and floated them down the Wind River in huge tie drives.
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The main tools were cross-cut saws, handsaws, broadaxes, axes, spokeknives, and pocketknives.
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The end was chipped square as neatly as a skilled man could have done with a broadaxe and unlimited time, but Sharina had seen the Archai use no tools save their own forelimbs.
Lord of the Isles
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A hundred years ago Fairhaven had a dozen men or more who, with an auger, an adz, a broadax and a drawshave, could build a boat or a house warranted to outlast the owner.
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Unusual about these two broadaxes was that along with Hicks's name they also bore the names of other residents of the Garden State.
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We carry hand-forged broadaxes from Sweden that can be either beveled on the left or right and that come with a straight or angled handle.
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In 1872, the sound of cross cut saws and broadaxes echoed across Mount Hotham.
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By midmorning they had a pitted sword, a battered broadaxe called Galeanor, the Axe of the Just, and one real finda twice-mended lance.
The Dragons of Krynn
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If you use a broadax, hew the log face perpendicular to the ground rather than parallel, as shown here.
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Dimitri Pavlovich, obedient to Matfei's request that he put aside his anger, was trying to teach Ivan how to absorb a broadaxe blow with his shield and twist the weapon out of the enemy's hands.
Enchantment
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Some would chop down the trees; some would measure and cut off the logs; some would "scutch" the logs; and others would come along with a broadaxe, and hew two sides of the logs flat.
Last of the Pioneers, Or Old Times in East Tenn.; Being the Life and Reminiscences of Pharaoh Jackson Chesney (Aged 120 Years).
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Makamuk swung the axe, a broadaxe for the squaring of logs.
Lost Face
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With broadaxes, adzes, and other tools of days gone by, crews continuously repair the park's buildings.
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The shaping of the timbers was accomplished mostly by the use of a variety of adzes, and broadaxes, each one especially designed for a specific purpose.
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Larger broadaxes, often beveled on both sides, were used by the ‘tie hacks’, who would drop a tree with a felling axe, then walk up and down it, hewing as they went.
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The broadaxe, jarred free, skidded down the slope ahead of them and came to rest on the trail.
The Gates of Thorbardin
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These are called broadaxes, named for their unusually wide cutting edge.
