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Definition of axing in English English dictionary
- present participle of axe
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- Variant of ask
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- {n} an iron tool to cut or hew wood
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- Slang: An electric guitar, bass or almost any musical instrument Submitted by Karl Kuenning RFL from Roadie Net
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- alternative spelling of axe
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- A market maker with a large order to fill who is moving the stock aggressively to fill it
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- terminate; "The NSF axed the research program and stopped funding it"
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- {i} hatchet, sharp tool used for chopping wood
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- Hand tool used for chopping, splitting, chipping, and piercing. Stone Age hand axes originated in simple stone implements that acquired wooden hafts, or handles, about 30,000 BC. Copper-bladed axes appeared in Egypt about 4000 BC and were followed by axes with blades of bronze and eventually iron. The development of the iron-bladed felling ax in the Middle Ages made possible the vast forest clearances of Europe, North and South America, and elsewhere. Though the ax has lost much of its historic role to powered saws and other machinery, it remains a widely used tool with many uses
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- A tool or instrument of steel, or of iron with a steel edge or blade, for felling trees, chopping and splitting wood, hewing timber, etc
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- A term used to refer to the UK's oddest classification, the "A-Road with Motorway Restrictions" Essentially these roads are a short section or bypass to an A-road which has been built and operates as a motorway Such roads are given the A-road's number, with (M) appended, hence the term Ax(M)
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- cutting tool KA - (Egyptian) spiritual self SI - ti (a tone of the scale)
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- an edge tool with a heavy bladed head mounted across a handle terminate; "The NSF axed the research program and stopped funding it
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- chop or split with an ax; "axe wood"
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- It is wielded by a wooden helve or handle, so fixed in a socket or eye as to be in the same plane with the blade
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- Ask (verb) To make a request of; to make a request for, to inquire/"Get over here foo and let me ax you a question "
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- To ask; to inquire or inquire of
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- an edge tool with a heavy bladed head mounted across a handle
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- {f} cut; fire, dismiss from a job; (West India) ask
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- The broadax, or carpenter's ax, is an ax for hewing timber, made heavier than the chopping ax, and with a broader and thinner blade and a shorter handle
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- form of variant, ask