0 a tool consisting of a heavy iron or steel blade at the end of a long wooden handle, used for cutting wood --
1 The ax is the order to give up your job or to stop or prevent something from happening: --
2 to order someone suddenly to give up a job, or to stop or reduce something suddenly: --
The terms and framing of this debate are no longer confined to those that are dictated by special interests with their own ax to grind.
He doesn't peel a grape with an ax.
With one blow of an ax to the back of his head, he was dead.
Sometimes, of course, you might have someone who has an ax to grind.
One truck driver clubbed a resident with an ax.
When he couldn't jimmy open a drawer in the kitchen, he hit it with his ax.
Below, the muted echo of ax blows could be heard.
The victim told police he heard someone shaking the door handle to his bedroom and saw the intruder grab the ax from beside the door.
