chip-axe
(ˈtʃɪpæks)
[f. chip v.1 + axe n.1]
A small axe used with one hand for cutting timber into the required shape. (Formerly, sometimes an adze.)
| 1407 Test. Ebor. (1836) I. 347 Lego Petro meo apprenticio j chipax. 1529 More Comf. agst. Trib. ii. Wks. 1187/1 A carpenter stoode hewing with his chyppe axe vpon a pece of timber. 1609 Bible (Douay) Ps. lxxiii[iv.] 6 In hatchets, and chippeaxe they have cast it downe. 1611 Cotgr., Aisceau, a Chip-axe, or one-handed plane-axe, wherewith Carpenters hew their timber smooth. 1693 W. Robertson Phraseol. Gen. 192 A Little plaining ax or Chip-ax. 1745 Columella's Husb. ii. ii, Let the ploughman make no less use of a chip-ax than of a plough-share. 1874 Knight Dict. Mech., Chip-ax, a small, single-handed ax used in chipping or listing a block. |