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单词 chip axe
释义

chip axen.

Brit. /ˈtʃɪp aks/, U.S. /ˈtʃɪp ˌæks/
Forms: see chip v.1 and axe n.1; also late Middle English shype-ax.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: chip v.1, axe n.1
Etymology: < chip v.1 + axe n.1
Now rare (chiefly North American).
A tool used for chipping or slicing away the surface of wood to dress or shape it; a hatchet or small axe suitable for such use; (also occasionally) an adze or similar tool.The precise nature of the tool is unclear in some examples; quot. 1745 appears to refer to an agricultural implement, perhaps an adze, used for digging or hoeing.
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hatcheta1350
chip axe1371
chipping axec1425
hack-chip1440
hatcha1533
plane-axe1611
planing axe1611
hand-axe1790
hack iron1831
tommy axe1848
tommy1873
Pulaski1924
1371–2 in R. R. Sharpe Cal. Wills Court of Husting (1890) II. 144 Bylte..chipax..Twyble..augour..squire..sawe.
a1535 T. More Dialoge of Comfort (1553) ii. xv. sig. I.iv A carpenter stode hewynge with his chyppe axe vpon a piece of timbre.
1693 W. Robertson Phraseologia Generalis (new ed.) 192 A Little plaining ax or Chip-ax.
a1727 I. Newton Short. Chron. 1st Memory in Chronol. Anc. Kingdoms Amended (1728) 19 Daedalus and his nephew Talus invent the saw, the turning-lath, the wimble, the chip-ax, and other instruments of Carpenters and Joyners.
1745 tr. L. J. M. Columella Of Husbandry ii. ii Let the ploughman make no less use of a chip-ax than of a plough-share.
1879 Daily Cairo (Illinois) Bull. 13 Nov. The chip axe which Summerwell was using in shaping the custom house flag pole yesterday morning, glanced on a chip and buried its edge in his leg.
1965 Denton (Texas) Record-Chron. 27 Jan. 2/5 Work on removing the rare find is being done by chip axe, with the three hacking away at the sand-gravel that has been the animal's grave for untold centuries.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2021).
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