noun
- a heavy ax with a broad, flat blade, used for felling trees or splitting wood
- a short-handled ax with a wide blade, historically used as a weapon or tool
Usage: historical
Examples
- The lumberjack swung the broadax to fell the oak tree.
- A broadax was an essential tool for early settlers clearing land.
- Medieval warriors sometimes carried a broadax into battle.
- The carpenter used a broadax to split the log into planks.
- The museum displayed an ancient broadax with intricate metalwork.
- He sharpened the broadax before starting the day's work.