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N ขวาน  axe khwan

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VT ฟัน หรือ ตัด ด้วย ขวาน  สับ ด้วย ขวาน  จาม ด้วย ขวาน  axe fan-rue-tad-duai-khwan

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n.improperly written axe. [Gr. ] An instrument usually of iron, for hewing timber and chopping wood. It consists of a head with an arching edge, and a helve or handle. The ax is of two kinds, the broad ax for hewing, and the narrow ax for rough-hewing and cutting. The hatchet is a small ax to be used with one hand.

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Ax, v. t. & i. Etym: [OE. axien and asken. See Ask. ]

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ax |aks æks |(also axe ) ▶noun 1 a tool typically used for chopping wood, usually a steel blade attached at a right angle to a wooden handle. • a measure intended to reduce costs drastically, esp. one that involves elimination of staff: thirty workers are facing the ax in the assembly department. 2 informal a musical instrument, esp. one played by a jazz or rock musician. ▶verb [ with obj. ] 1 end, cancel, or dismiss suddenly and ruthlessly: the company is axing 125 jobs | 2,500 staff were axed as part of the realignment. • reduce (costs or services ) drastically: the candidates all promised to ax government spending. 2 cut or strike with an ax, esp. violently or destructively: the door had been axed by the firefighters. PHRASES have an ax to grind have a self-serving reason for doing or being involved in something: she joined the board because she had an ax to grind with the school system. ORIGIN Old English æx, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch aaks and German Axt .

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ax (also aks ) ▶verb dialect and West Indian form of ask: I'm axing plenty question. I axed her once if she would want pipes and t'ings put into her body.

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