Hand-æx

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - hand-æx

According to the Old English Dictionary:

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hand-æx
f. An axe that could be used with one hand, a hatchet :-- Handæx dextralis (dextralis securis genus, idem quod manuaria, Migne. Cf. Spanish destral a small axe or little hatchet), Wrt. Voc. ii. . 140, 1. [N. E. D. hand-ax. Icel. hand-öx.] hand-æx
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