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hand axe

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Noun1.hand axe - a stone tool with a cutting edgehand axe - a stone tool with a cutting edge; the stone is held in the hand and used for chopping
edge tool - any cutting tool with a sharp cutting edge (as a chisel or knife or plane or gouge)


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The first settlers arrived in the fifth millennium but all that remains from this period is a single stone hand axe which was found in Druids Lane.
A "Western" themed room could include such items as a stallion figurine, southwestern styled mirror, metal cowboy wall hooks, or a feathered hand axe.
I'm not very superstitious, but I do have a 5,000-year-old flint hand axe which always feels strangely reassuring when I hold it.
 
 
 
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