Our house was made from logs hewed flat with a broadax.    From Wordnik.com.  [Old Rail Fence Corners The A. B. C's. of Minnesota History] Reference

September looked subdued and worried as he wiped his broadax.    From Wordnik.com.  [Icerigger]

Our floor was of maple split with wedges and hewed out with a broadax.    From Wordnik.com.  [Old Rail Fence Corners The A. B. C's. of Minnesota History] Reference

“Just recently she bargained well for salt, honey, and a broadax.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Welkening] Reference

Carpenters shaped the logs into square beams using a hand tool called a broadax.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE ARROWS COOKBOOK] Reference

A broadax was, you know, twelve or fourteen inches wide and the handle was curved a little.    From Wordnik.com.  [Old Rail Fence Corners The A. B. C's. of Minnesota History] Reference

It still stood there, the one reminder of the days of old, the one thing left of Earth, with its great, scarred oak mantel that his father had carved out with a broadax from a massive log and had smoothed by hand with plane and draw-shave.    From Wordnik.com.  [Way Station]

McCoy described it as a doubleheaded, broadax with two 6-inch, stainless steel blades protruding from opposite sides.    From Wordnik.com.  [View From The Porch] Reference

In the garret the rafters show the loving marks of the broadax -- to swing which musical instrument with grace and effectiveness is now a lost art.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 11 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Businessmen] Reference

Here's the historical broadax strokes - basically there's this mongo mountain range that's chock full of this extremely valuable natural resource called mithril.    From Wordnik.com.  [TreeHugger] Reference

A hundred years ago Fairhaven had a dozen men or more who, with an auger, an adz, a broadax and a drawshave, could build a boat or a house warranted to outlast the owner.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 11 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Businessmen] Reference

You, with the enterprising Richard Allen, have gone forth, the broadax of primitive labors upon your shoulders, entered the forest, hewn down the timber, and erected the stupendous fabric which now constitutes our Zion.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of the African Methodist Episcopal Church] Reference

They were of logs handsomely shaped with the broadax; the joints between the logs were plastered with mortar; the chimney at the end was of stone; the roof was shingled, the windows were of glass, and the door was solid and well hung.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories Of Ohio] Reference

They were of logs handsomely shaped with the broadax; the joints between the logs were plastered with mortar; the 15 chimney at the end was of stone; the roof was shingled, the windows were of glass, and the door was solid and well hung.    From Wordnik.com.  [Story Hour Readings: Seventh Year] Reference

The log was hewed square on one side with a sixteen-inch broadax, then eight inches left at each end and the remainder was hulled out to a big trough, then two holes were bored in the bottom of each end of the trough and four wooden legs, made by hand, were driven into the trough and set up.    From Wordnik.com.  [Documenting the American South: The Southern Experience in 19-th Century America] Reference

Matt Abrahamson thought he had found something of more than usual value when he came upon this chest; but when he cut the cords and broke open the box with his broadax, he could not have been more astonished had he beheld a salamander instead of a baby of nine or ten months old lying half smothered in the blankets that covered the bottom of the chest.    From Wordnik.com.  [Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates] Reference

Eglantines, Ugandans, Accountant yellowjackets - illogicality, illogicalities unmanageable - unimaginable, manageable, inimitable, manageably, amendable breastfeeding - breathtaking horseracing - resurfacing, reassuring childbearing - ... chalkboards unemotional - ... emanational, unmentionable, unanimously nonflammable - mentionable, nonviolently, monosyllable, nonvolatile reawakens - weakens, wakens, reddens, rattans, weaklings, walk-ins, walk-ons Beaujolais - beguiles, bobtails, beauteous, bodiless, beauties, bellicose Bordeaux - burdocks, bureaux, broadax, paradox, birdseed, bordellos, birdhouse.    From Wordnik.com.  [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XV No 1] Reference