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Axe

From Encyc
the cutting blade of an axe is parallel to the handle
the cutting blade of an adze is perpendicular to the handle.
this boarding axe, from 1833, has a deadly spike opposite of the axe head
this halberd adds a spike and a spear point

An axe is a cutting tool. Axes are hand tools. They are usually employed to cut wood.

Lumberjacks use axes to cut down trees. Fire-fighters use axes to gain access to locked room. Sailors used to use axes as weapons, during [[boarding parties. Homesteaders could build a crude log cabin, using only an axe, and the similar tool, the adze

Axes mount a steel head at one end of a wooden handle. The blade's cutting edge runs parallel to the axe's handle. Some woodworker's axes, and war axes, have to blades, on either side of the handle

a daneaxe's handle was approximately 150 centimetres (59 in), long, making it good tool for dismounting cavalry.