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Meaning:
Noun:
- An ancient weapon consisting of a head that has one or two blades and a long handle.
- archaic The axle of a wheel.
- A tool for felling trees or chopping wood etc. consisting of a heavy head flattened to a blade on one side, and a handle attached to it.
- finance A directional position or interest, by a dealer in a financial market ? if one wishes to unload stock, one is ?axed to sell? or ?has an axe?.
[[http://www.risk.net/public/showPage.html?page=132529 Shedding the correlation ?axe?], Risk magazine] Derived from ?have an axe to grind?, which is also used. - informal A dismissal or rejection.
- music A gigging musician's particular instrument, especially a guitar in rock music or a saxophone in jazz.
Source: Wiktionary
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Verb:
- or|dialectal ask
- To furnish with an axle.
- transitive To fell or chop with an axe.
- transitive To lay off: to terminate a person's employment
- transitive To terminate or reduce tremendously in a rough or ruthless manner.
Source: Wiktionary
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