moot-axe

English

Etymology

moot (“tree stump”) +‎ axe

Noun

moot-axe (plural moot-axes)

  1. (West Country) An specialised axe for cutting tree stumps.
    • 1919, Bartlett, J. Allen, “Report on a Search for the Site of the Chapel of St. Blasius, Henbury”, in Edwin Sidney Hartland, editor, Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society‎, volume 41, page 164:
      The total area within the Romano-British fortress is perhaps three acres, and the fact that the explorer is no longer young and was single-handed quite precluded any extensive trenching in the hard and stony soil with no implements other than a shovel, a small spade and a moot-axe.
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