axes

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.

An ancient weapon consisting of a head that has one or two blades and a long handle.

(informal) A dismissal or rejection.

(slang, music) A gigging musician's particular instrument, especially a guitar in rock music or a saxophone in jazz.

(figurative) A drastic reduction or cutback.

(finance) A position, interest, or reason in buying and selling stock, often with ulterior motives.

A river in Dorset, Somerset, and east Devon, England, which flows into Lyme Bay at Seaton.

A river in Somerset, England, which flows into the Bristol Channel at Weston-super-Mare.

(archaic) The axle of a wheel.

verb

(transitive, figurative) To lay off, terminate or drastically reduce, especially in a rough or ruthless manner; to cancel.

(transitive) To fell or chop with an axe.

To furnish with an axle.

(now obsolete outside dialects, especially African-American Vernacular) Alternative form of ask. [To request or petition.]

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