Axe Heads

The sites are rich in arrow-heads, axe-heads, mortars and grindstones. ❋ Unknown (2008)

I never saw the buckskin man move, but suddenly he was in their path and the murderous axe-heads clanged as they struck and parried and struck again faster than the eye could follow. ❋ Estelle Bruno (2010)

In exchange for furs, the colonists gave the Native Americans metal implements, such as axe-heads and knives. ❋ Maggiemac (2007)

It makes tools that are primitive but plenty useful: axe-heads, knives, skewers, scrapers. ❋ King, Stephen (2004)

These he changes with the rich men of his village for a very peculiar and interesting form of coinage — bikei — little iron imitation axe-heads which are tied up in bundles called ntet, ten going to one bundle, for with bikei must the price of a wife be paid. ❋ Unknown (2003)

I personally know of a tribe in this part of the world using a native-made coin is that of the Fans, who use little bundles of imitation axe-heads. ❋ Unknown (2003)

The blacks landed bales of thick cloth, cooking utensils, fish-hooks, knife-blades and axe-heads; discussion and barter followed, after which the finds from the diggings were bundled up into the launch. ❋ Waugh, Evelyn (1998)

For the fighters of the elven lords 'armies, they made fine swords, spear - and axe-heads, and tiny, razor-sharp arrowheads that could not be pulled from a wound, only cut out. ❋ Lackey, Mercedes (1991)

By both the doors they could now see that many bones were lying, and among them were broken swords and axe-heads, and cloven shields and helms. ❋ Tolkien, J. R. R. (1965)

The axe-heads glittered in their rhythmic flight, like fierce eagles circling about their quarry. ❋ Rosa Mary Redding [Editor] Mikels (N/A)

All practical measures were tried to establish friendly relations with the islanders; and when people at home might fancy the Bishop preaching impressively to a decorous circle of listeners, he was really engaged in lively talk and barter, receiving yams and other articles of food in return for the produce of Birmingham and Sheffield, axe-heads which he presented to the old, and fish-hooks with which he won the favour of the young. ❋ George Henry Blore (N/A)

Long narrow celts often riveted: spear-heads, leaf-shaped or triangular (IX, Figs. 3, 6, 10): axe-heads with socket, swelling blade and curved cutting edge: pins both 'toggle' and unpierced, straight and bent over. ❋ Various (N/A)

He held the notch, and he drew the string, and he shot the bronze-weighted arrow straight through the holes in the back of the axe-heads. ❋ Padraic Colum (1926)

They improved their methods of making their weapons until they were able to produce axe-heads so perfectly ground and polished and with such a keen cutting edge that it would be impossible to make anything better. ❋ Gordon Home (1923)

I was busily engaged blowing the bellows of the Tinker's small, portable forge; besides the making and mending of kettles, pots, pans and the like, it seems he was a skilful smith also, able to turn his hand from shoeing a horse to fashioning such diverse implements as the rustic community had need of, for beside the forge lay a pile of billhooks, axe-heads, sickle-blades and the like, finished or in the making. ❋ Jeffery Farnol (1915)

I was drinking an Axe Head in an alley the other day. A [homeless man] walking by stopped and [shook] his head, displaying his utter loss of [hope in humanity]. ❋ Lord Parmesan (2010)

He [took] an axe to the head from his [defamatory] [comment]. ❋ The Ferocious Whomper (2017)