A third kind has one broadaxe and the legend, "I cut my way through.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Once Upon a Time in Connecticut] Reference

Suddenly the hard voice of our old pilot crashes through it like a broadaxe.    From Wordnik.com.  [Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death] Reference

He armed himself with a sharp broadaxe, under whose cruel blade many a white man fell.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880. Vol. 2 (of 2) Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens] Reference

But it does demonstrate the need to take on that task with a scalpel and not a broadaxe.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scott Lilly: Draconian but Expensive: Boehner's Poorly Considered 'Pledge' Is Likely to Increase the Deficit] Reference

The broadaxe, jarred free, skidded down the slope ahead of them and came to rest on the trail.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Gates of Thorbardin]

A broadaxe de - scended and crunched into the ground, barely missing both of them, and Wingover's hold slipped.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Gates of Thorbardin]

The log-bridge had been made quite flat on its upper surface with a broadaxe, and all the bark had long since worn off.    From Wordnik.com.  [Six Little Bunkers at Mammy June's] Reference

The legionnaires dropped pike and sword, shield and broadaxe, and fled before the reckless barbarians, the fleet Plainsmen.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dark Queen]

The rich dark wood of its walls and floor -- all rudely smoothed with the broadaxe and the whipsaw -- hung overhead in massive beams.    From Wordnik.com.  [Round Anvil Rock A Romance] Reference

By midmorning they had a pitted sword, a battered broadaxe called Galeanor, the Axe of the Just, and one real finda twice-mended lance.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dragons of Krynn]

Dimitri Pavlovich, obedient to Matfei's request that he put aside his anger, was trying to teach Ivan how to absorb a broadaxe blow with his shield and twist the weapon out of the enemy's hands.    From Wordnik.com.  [Enchantment]

Makamuk swung the axe, a broadaxe for the squaring of logs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lost Face] Reference

The broadaxe is seldom used now and may be omitted from our kit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shelters, Shacks and Shanties] Reference

(Fig. 179) split the shingles from the billets of wood, or use a broadaxe for the same purpose.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shelters, Shacks and Shanties] Reference

A sailor stood by the door wiping the stained blade of his broadaxe, and I called on him to aid us.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Maids of Paradise] Reference

Locked doors they smashed with a broadaxe found in the small-arms chest and so entered all the rooms.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackbeard: Buccaneer] Reference

Her yeomen forsook ploughshare and broadaxe, seized sword and musket, and rallied to the standard of Brock.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of Isaac Brock Hero, Defender and Saviour of Upper Canada, 1812] Reference

Her features were as excellent as her form, appearing to have been rough-hewn with a broadaxe, and left unpolished.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fanshawe] Reference

In his younger days Davy Glinds had been a ship carpenter, and was skilled in the use of the broadaxe and the adze.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Busy Year at the Old Squire's] Reference

broadaxes are dangerous weapons in the hands of an amateur, but the writer split shingles with a broadaxe upon the shores of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shelters, Shacks and Shanties] Reference

On his way over to India his preaching converted all the sailors, including the ship's carpenter, “whose heart was as hard as his broadaxe.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recollections of a Long Life]

Why doesn't his grandson hang up his old broadaxe and plowshare and worship them, if he must have idols, instead of that symbol of strife and bloodshed.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Exile and Other Stories] Reference

With one stroke of a cutlass, he is able to slice off a head as neatly as you could do it with a broadaxe; there are very few who can do it with a cutlass, let me tell you that.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Old Tobacco Shop A True Account of What Befell a Little Boy in Search of Adventure] Reference

He took a broadaxe and cut one hand off; then contrived to lift the axe, with his arm pressing it to his body, and let it fall upon the other, cutting off the ends of his fingers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Narratives of the sufferings of Lewis and Milton Clarke : sons of a soldier of the Revolution, during a captivity of more than twenty years among the slaveholders of Kentucky, one of the so called Christian states of North America, by dictated] Reference

Some would chop down the trees; some would measure and cut off the logs; some would "scutch" the logs; and others would come along with a broadaxe, and hew two sides of the logs flat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Last of the Pioneers, Or Old Times in East Tenn.; Being the Life and Reminiscences of Pharaoh Jackson Chesney (Aged 120 Years).] Reference

Above you and around you are beams and joists, on some of which you may see, when the light is let in, the marks of the conchoidal clippings of the broadaxe, showing the rude way in which the timber was shaped as it came, full of sap, from the neighboring forest.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Poet at the Breakfast-Table] Reference

With me it was a perfect hazy mist of wonder and bewilderment; and I went to sleep and dreamed that John Rogers was burning Lady Lothrop at the stake, and Polly, as executioner, presided with a great broadaxe over her shoulder, while grandmother, with nine small children, all with stone bundles on their heads, assisted at the ceremony.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oldtown Folks] Reference

Ramsay himself, with a sword like a butcher's cleaver and a wit like a broadaxe! ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Heralds of Empire Being the Story of One Ramsay Stanhope, Lieutenant to Pierre Radisson in the Northern Fur Trade] Reference

In the other he held a heavy broadaxe.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Gates of Thorbardin]

He was not a razor, but a broadaxe.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of the African Methodist Episcopal Church] Reference

That's how you eat a broadaxe breakfast.    From Wordnik.com.  [Snarkastic] Reference