Meaning of Axe | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A tool for felling trees or chopping wood etc. consisting of a heavy head flattened to a blade on one side, and a handle attached to it.
2. The axle of a wheel.
   archaic
3. A river in Dorset, Somerset, and east Devon, England, which flows into Lyme Bay at Seaton.
4. An ancient weapon consisting of a head that has one or two blades and a long handle.
5. A river in Somerset, England, which flows into the Bristol Channel at Weston-super-Mare.
6. A dismissal or rejection.
   informal
7. A drastic reduction or cutback.
   figuratively
8. A gigging musician's particular instrument, especially a guitar in rock music or a saxophone in jazz.
   slang
9. A position, interest, or reason in buying and selling stock, often with ulterior motives.

Equivalents

Examples

“His girlfriend/boss/schoolmaster gave him the axe.”

“the Beeching Axe”

“The tractor plant is slated for the axe.”

“I had a job in the great North Woods Workin' as a cook for a spell But I never did like it all that much And one day the axe just fell”

“But P'u-yi was nothing if not soft when it came to family, and he arranged for the young man to live with his uncle Beitzu P'u-hsiu in P'u-yi's old house in T'ien-ching. So Yü-t'ai was well clear of Ch'ang-ch'un when the axe fell in 1945.”

“Back in 1963, how could Beeching advocate closure of the electrified Liverpool-Southport commuter route, just because its books didn't balance? The busy North London line between Richmond and Broad Street was also for the axe, as was Leeds to Bradford and Ilkley.”

“A financial dealer has an axe in a stock that his buyers don't know about, giving him an advantage in making the most profit.”

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