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moot-axes

moot-axes is the plural of moot-axe.

Meaning of moot-axe

Noun

moot-axe (plural moot-axes)

  1. (West-Country) A specialised axe for cutting tree stumps.
    • The total area within the Romano-British fortress is perhaps three acres, and the fact that the explorer is no longer young and was single-handed quite precluded any extensive trenching in the hard and stony soil with no implements other than a shovel, a small spade and a moot-axe.1919, J. Allen Bartlett, “Report on a Search for the Site of the Chapel of St. Blasius, Henbury”, in Edwin Sidney Hartland, editor, Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological...

Questions about moot-axes

What is moot-axes the plural of?
Moot-axes is the plural of moot-axe.

Words near moot-axes in the dictionary

  1. moot hall
  2. moot hill
  3. moot point
  4. moot points
  5. moot-axe
  6. moot-axes
  7. moot-hall
  8. moot-halls
  9. moot-stow
  10. moot-stows
  11. moota

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