Words similar to axe

Example sentences for: axe

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Tucker, you may recall, was the rehabilitated axe murderess whose faith-based request for clemency Bush chose not to grant despite pleas from Pat Robertson (which paradoxically made him more eager to execute her--the better to distance himself from the religious right).
In 1773 the road commissioners for the Town of Harrison, N.Y., laid out a road, “along said Merrits land to a Black Oak Stadel marked with a Slipe and three hacks with an axe.”
“I wanna axe you a question.”
O ordinary axe
The piece points out that up to just a few years ago, at most companies office relationships were grounds for dismissal, with the junior member of the couple typically getting the axe, but that nowadays, such companies as IBM, AT&T, Corning and Xerox have moved to the view that such relationships cannot be banned but can be managed.