fireman's ax

1. 1.

   an ax that has a long handle and a head with one cutting edge and a point on the other side

   Synonymsfireman's axe

   Broaderax

Questions about fireman's ax

What does fireman's ax mean?

fireman's ax means "an ax that has a long handle and a head with one cutting edge and a point on the other side".

What is another word for fireman's ax?

Close synonyms include fireman's axe. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is fireman's ax a common word?

fireman's ax is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.