axblade

English

Etymology

From ax +‎ blade.

Noun

axblade (plural axblades)

1. US spelling of axeblade.
   • 1967, Frank Yerby, chapter 21, in Goat Song: A Novel of Ancient Greece, New York, N.Y.: The Dial Press, Inc., page 368:

     Another sank to his knees, clutching at his throat where a hand like an axblade had crushed his larynx; […]

   • 1998, Steven Millhauser, “Balloon Flight, 1870”, in The Knife Thrower and Other Stories, New York, N.Y.: Crown Publishers, Inc., →ISBN, page 179:

     I look up at the sky, at blue air and drifting cloud, up there where the wide spaces cleave the spirit like an axblade, I bid the whispering and too-high heavens farewell, then I cast my eyes downward, toward the rising earth, toward the solid place, the human turmoil.

   • 1999, Brian Jacques, “Act Three: The Queen’s Island”, in Marlfox (Redwall), 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Philomel Books, →ISBN, page 296:

     The Marlfox ignored the gibe, listening to the steady ring of axblades against oakwood.

     The 1st UK edition (1998) uses axeblades.