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hand ax

NOUN
  1. a stone tool with a cutting edge; the stone is held in the hand and used for chopping

How To Use hand ax In A Sentence

  • On his left hung some long axes, some double edged and still others were hand axes, hatchets.
  • If Davidson is right, the famed ‘improvement’ in hand axes 600,000 years ago would simply mean that knappers were getting more and finer flakes from each stone.
  • The hand axes are mostly pointed, including well-made ‘ficron’ and ‘cordate’ forms, in some cases partly unworked with the outer cortex retained as a convenient handle.
  • From it hung the hand axe, the sewing case, her dagger — a fine steel one in a sheath of nielloed tin, owned by one of the Blood Eagles until every creature on Tegma died — and a satchel containing bread and a bottle of water. Lord of the Isles
  • He does not pause, but goes straight to work on the leeward side of the shed with his hand axe.
  • The war axe is obviously derived from the earliest unhafted hand axes but, once hafted, the axe became as effective a weapon of war as it had been a domestic tool.
  • They were various weapons, including small swords, bows and arrows, hand axes, flails, nunchakus, and even a three sectional staff.
  • A digger uncovered what could be Britain's best-preserved Neanderthal butchery site, which included the remains of mammoths and other ancient beasts as well as hand axes used by early humans.
  • Mousterian" tools (named for the southwestern French site Le Moustier), consisted of carefully shaped flake tools and small hand axes, almost always made from local materials. Undefined
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