Axe
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axe-177-16764224
title:
Axe
text:
An axe is an implement that has been used for millennia to shape, split, and cut wood, to harvest timber, as a weapon, and as a ceremonial or heraldic symbol. The axe has many forms and specialised uses but generally consists of an axe head with a handle, also called a haft or a helve. Before the modern axe, the stone-age hand axe without a handle was used from 1.5 million years BP. Hafted axes date only from 6,000 BC. The earliest examples of handled axes have heads of stone with some form of w
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wiki
category slug:
encyclopedia
description:
Type of wedge tool
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axe
date created:
2002-03-14T11:40:05Z
date modified:
2024-09-04T13:43:44Z
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image:
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13
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