ax handle

Examples

• All

• What he thinks is a pump in the distance is an ax handle still lodged in a stump.

  Fiction book (1992)

• She never hit me upside the head with that ax handle again.

  Carolina (2003)

• We hear the sound of the axe handle hitting something.

  Fiction book (2001)

• My fingers closed around the axe handle, pulling it and Peter down with me as I fell.

  Fiction book (1996)

• The man behind the wheel slid out, bringing the ax handle with him.

  Fiction book (1990)

• Gordy swings over the hole on the axe handle.

  Fiction book (2002)

• The struck man staggered back, whirled around unsteadily, reached into the cab, and came out with an ax handle.

  Fiction book (1990)

• The man, skinny, with a sucked-in mouth, raised the ax handle again and brought it down across the red-shirted man's shoulders.

  Fiction book (1990)

• The sweat of my father's hands that stained the ax handle before the sweat of my hand stained my father's sweat stain makes this my land.

  Fiction book (2001)

• He gripped the ax handle tightly as he prepared to swing at the log.

Synonyms

H

handle

vsax handle

211 1.0

The part of an object you hold to carry or use it

is the wooden or metal grip used to hold and swing that chopping tool

H

helve

vsax handle

• Archaic

9.9

The handle of a tool like an axe or hammer

is the wooden or metal grip specific to the chopping tool

How Sturdy

ax handle

• US

3 2.5

shaft

55 4.2

stick

686 1.0

twig

61 1.0

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology