Usually means: Weapon, often historical, with blade.
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General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. battle-ax: Merriam-Webster
  2. battle-ax: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. battle-ax: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. battle-ax: Vocabulary.com
  5. battle-ax: Wordnik
  6. battle-ax: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. battle-ax: Wiktionary
  8. battle-ax: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. battle-ax: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Battle-ax, battle-ax: Dictionary.com
  11. Battle-ax: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. battle-ax: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. battle-ax: Rhymezone
  14. Battle-ax: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. battle-ax: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  16. battle-ax: FreeDictionary.org
  17. battle-ax: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. battle-ax: TheFreeDictionary.com

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Battle-ax)

noun:  (chiefly US) Alternative spelling of battle axe [An ancient military weapon, an axe designed for combat, including (in heraldry) when borne on arms as a mark of prowess.]

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