Usually means: Tool with blade for chopping.
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We found 52 dictionaries that define the word axe:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. axe: Merriam-Webster
  2. axe: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. axe: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. axe, the axe: Collins English Dictionary
  5. axe: Vocabulary.com
  6. Axe, axe: Wordnik
  7. axe, the axe: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Axe, axe: Wiktionary
  9. axe: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. axe: Dictionary.com
  11. axe: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  12. Axe (Lynx), Axe (band), Axe (brand), Axe (deodorant), Axe (disambiguation), Axe (film), Axe (grooming product), Axe (tool), Axe, The Axe (film), The Axe (song): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Axe: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. axe: Rhymezone
  15. Axe, axe (m): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. AXE: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  17. Axe: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  18. axe: FreeDictionary.org
  19. axe: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. Axe (guitar): The Word Detective
  21. axe: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. axe: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  23. axe: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  24. axe: Merriam-Webster

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Jazz Humor (No longer online)
  3. Axe: Dictionary of Symbolism

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  2. Axe: Investopedia
  3. Axe (tool), Axe: Financial dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. aXe: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. Axe (tool), axe: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. axe: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. AXE: Acronym Finder
  4. AXE: Three Letter Words with definitions
  5. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  6. axe: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Axe: Easton Bible

Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Axe: LITHICS-NET's Glossary of Lithics Terminology
  2. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  3. Bryological (No longer online)
  4. Anthropology dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. axe, axe: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. axe: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. 2060 Shadow-Slang (No longer online)

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Rane Professional Audio Reference (No longer online)
  3. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)

(Note: See axeing as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A tool for felling trees or chopping wood etc. consisting of a heavy head flattened to a blade on one side, and a handle attached to it.
noun:  An ancient weapon consisting of a head that has one or two blades and a long handle.
noun:  (informal) A dismissal or rejection.
noun:  (figurative) A drastic reduction or cutback.
noun:  (slang, music) A gigging musician's particular instrument, especially a guitar in rock music or a saxophone in jazz.
noun:  (finance) A position, interest, or reason in buying and selling stock, often with ulterior motives.
verb:  (transitive) To fell or chop with an axe.
verb:  (transitive, figurative) To lay off, terminate or drastically reduce, especially in a rough or ruthless manner; to cancel.
noun:  (archaic) The axle of a wheel.
verb:  To furnish with an axle.
noun:  A river in Dorset, Somerset, and east Devon, England, which flows into Lyme Bay at Seaton.
noun:  A river in Somerset, England, which flows into the Bristol Channel at Weston-super-Mare.
verb:  (now obsolete outside dialects, especially African-American Vernacular) Alternative form of ask [To request or petition.]

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