broadax

Since then, he’s completely restored it, taking it apart and rebuilding it from scratch, even hand-hewing the logs with a 200-year-old broadax.

For weeks at a time Harriet swung a broadax in the woods as part of Ben’s crew, cutting half a cord of wood a day just like a man.

A kind of broadax formerly used as an offensive weapon.

He could build a good log house without a nail or any other article that would cost money, and with very few tools beside his ax and broadax.

While hewing with the broadax at one of the canoes, he had had the misfortune to slash his foot, so must lie in his bunk and watch the others.