stone-axe
1. A two-edged axe used for hewing stone.
| c 1000 ælfric Gloss. in Wr.-Wülcker 141 Bipennis, twibille uel stanæx. ? c 1357 Durham Acc. Rolls (Surtees) 560 Pro Stanaxes, Hakkes, [etc.]. 1483 Cath. Angl. 359/2 A Sstane axe, vbi A mason Axe. 1533 MS. Rawl. D. 776 lf. 147 b, For a stone axe ffor lyk vse. 1875 Knight Dict. Mech., Stone-axe, an axe with two somewhat obtuse edges, used in spawling and hewing stone. |
2. An axe made of stone.
| 1864 H. Woodward in Intell. Observ. V. 180 Stone axe of Serpentine. 1865 Lubbock Preh. Times iv. (1878) 98 The North American stone axe or tomahawk. |