axblade

Noun

axblade (plural axblades)

1. American spelling of axeblade.
   • Another sank to his knees, clutching at his throat where a hand like an axblade had crushed his larynx; […]1967, Frank Yerby, chapter 21, in Goat Song: A Novel of Ancient Greece, New York, N.Y.: The Dial Press, Inc., page 368
   • I look up at the sky, at blue air and drifting cloud, up there where the wide spaces cleave the spirit like an axblade, I bid the whispering and too-high heavens farewell, then I cast my eyes downward, toward the rising earth, toward the solid place, the human turmoil.1998, Steven Millhauser, “Balloon Flight, 1870”, in The Knife Thrower and Other Stories, New York, N.Y.: Crown Publishers, Inc., →ISBN, page 179