单词 | chip axe |
释义 | chip axen. 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. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > cutting tool > axe > [noun] > small adzeeOE 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). < n.1371 |
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