stone-axen.
1. A two-edged axe used for hewing stone.
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c1000 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 141 Bipennis, twibille uel stanæx.
?c1357 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1899) II. 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 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Stone-axe, an axe with two somewhat obtuse edges, used in spawling and hewing stone.
2. An axe made of stone.
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flintstonec1400
celt1748
fairy hammer1815
axe1851
flint-flake1851
stone-axe1864
flake-knife1865
scraper1865
thumb-flint1865
tool-stone1865
saddle quern1867
fabricator1872
grattoir1872
hammer-stone1872
tribrach1873
flake1875
hand-axe1878
pick1888
turtle-back1890
racloir1892
eolith1895
pebble chopper1895
palaeotalith1897
tranchet1899
point1901
pygmy flint1907
microlith1908
Gravette1911
keeled scraper1911
lissoir1911
coup de poing1912
end-scraper1915
burin1916
rostro-carinate1919
tortoise core1919
blade1921
axe-adze1925
petit tranchet1926
tournette1927
pebble tool1931
raclette1932
biface1934
cleaver1935
thumbnail scraper1937
microblade1959
linguate1966
1864 H. Woodward in Intellectual Observer V. 180 Stone axe of Serpentine.
1865 J. Lubbock Prehist. Times vii. 204 Stone axes of large size, made of greenstone.
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