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ˈhand-axe, -ax
a. An axe to be wielded by one hand; anciently a battle-axe.
1297R. Glouc. (1724) 26 He ne dradde noȝt þo that handaxe, as it was y sene. c1300Havelok 2553 Hand-ax,..gisarm, or spere. 1375Barbour Bruce xii. 57 The hand ax schaft ruschit in twa. 1498St. Giles' Charters (1859) Pref. 41 Ane hand-ax or sword. 1886J. H. Kennedy in A. E. Lee Hist. Columbus (1892) II. 372 The other..with only a handax and jackplane made a drum cylinder.
b. A prehistoric stone implement, esp. a bifacially worked cutting tool typical of certain Lower and Middle Palæolithic industries. (Cf. coup de poing.)
1878Brooklyn Monthly May 143/2 Another pattern have the groove extending partly round; other are wholly without a groove, and are of a pattern sometimes called hand axes. 1914J. Geikie Antiquity of Man in Europe ii. 44 The coup de poing or hand-axe still occurs, but is rare, and would seem to have gone out of use in early Mousterian times. 1955J. S. Weiner Piltdown Forgery xiii. 185 At Olorgesailie in Kenya Leakey found some good examples of these spherical stone balls with the Hand-axe culture. 1959J. D. Clark Prehist. S. Afr. ii. 41 Handaxe, a heavy all-purpose tool, often pear⁓shaped and some 8–9 inches in length. Believed to have been used in the hand without hafting. 1972Times Lit. Suppl. 31 Mar. 371/2 The chopper and biface core tools generally known as hand-axes. |