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On the upside, he has room to strut his nonpareil axe work, but the orchestra isn't so much an effective foil as an amenable supporter.
The ex-rocker techno DJ's love affair with the axe was in fact a renewed one, after he'd put the instrument aside for a decade.
But later that year, Nun Monkton was saved from the axe by becoming the first school in North Yorkshire to opt out of local authority control.
A police spokesman said several reports followed of a man wielding two hatchets or a small axe.
There followed a horrendous package of measures to freeze pay and prices, axe public spending and jack up taxes.
Those anxious to shout corruption either have an axe to grind or are self-righteous types.
I don't have a connection with any one club, which is not a bad thing because I don't have an axe to grind.
A second before the man threw down the axe into Daniels' head, Daniels threw the morning star at him and leaped out of the axe's path.
It's all innuendo and unsubstantiated intelligence given by people who clearly have an axe to grind.
Many of those neighbours have an axe to grind with the former Yugoslav republic.
Second, their fate being in their own hands, they needn't worry about being manipulated by a third party who normally has an axe to grind.
Certainly, she has an axe to grind, and a battered reputation to rebuild, and so like most political memoirs this one is one-sided.
Often the working blade of a tool is called its head, like the head of an axe.
It was like a monkey house, and the head monkeys were snooty intellectuals with an axe to grind.
Defiant newsagent Tina Harfield sent a would-be armed robber on his bike after thwacking him with an axe handle.
It contained a number of wooden replicas, including his scimitars, spear, and axe.
Everyone will have one person who's had a bad experience, or has an axe to grind or something.
Incredibly, the killer appears to be emulating an American Indian warrior, scalping his victims, after murdering them with an axe.
An axe murderer has gone on the run from an open prison after he was given leave to work for a charity.
Make sure you tell a friend where you're going in case this person turns out to be an axe murderer.
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The courtier sat in the corner cowering in fear as a hooded figure with an axe stepped closer.
It turns out he's not an axe murderer and is in fact an extremely decent bloke.
He does not pause, but goes straight to work on the leeward side of the shed with his hand axe.
Aside from Simon Gray, few dramatists have lately taken an axe to academia.
He was wearing a grin that could make a stone cry, while rolling the axe to and fro between his fingers.
One day, while cutting wood Jerry Sr. lopped off a finger from his right hand with an errant axe blow.
The famed, double-handed broad axe is a late development, typical of the late 10th and 11th centuries.
Unlike more socially self-conscious authors, Fraser appears to have no axe to grind.
There are about 30 different combat attacks and combos with double-handed axe, sword or mace.
He had been struck 20 times with a double-handed axe, a jury at Leeds Crown Court was told.
He wanted to run Marcs through with a blade, be it a scimitar, a sword, a dirk, a dagger, a knife, an axe or an arrow.
But he was also skilled at the bow, the short ax, the dirk, the scythe, the dagger, even the great battle axe.
The leader ducked the blow and brought the axe around in a sweeping arc straight for Drew's knees.
Next time I'll rent a roof carrier and bring a few more handy items, starting with a plastic dishpan, our own axe, and a kite.
Aside from the heavy battle axe, all of Samanosuke's weapons are elementally charged swords.
As soon as we lowered the starboard action boat to the next deck the gripes of the boat caught and we had to cut them with an axe.
Greenwell discovered numerous antler picks scattered throughout the mine as well as the ground stone axe made of greenstone from Cornwall.
Looking around I reclaimed my fire axe and slowly descended the stairs inside the building.
She had no hidden agenda, no axe to grind, just great empathy and overwhelming sympathy.
Elsewhere, external deficit financing is facing the axe due to loan preconditions the government cannot meet on time.
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Making my hair turn gray were scenes of daredevils leaping across yawning gorges, hanging by one hand and an axe over the abyss.
Smartly dressed and smelling of expensive eau de toilette, there didn't seem to be an axe concealed underneath his jacket.
Imagine if I'd told him that an axe and wallpaper paste was the best way to perform a cut and paste!
According to other official sources, plans are also on the cards to axe three to four full-grown trees to pave the way for the new structure.
Happily our cupidity was never tested by finding something as cherishable as a Neolithic polished axe head.
They also think that internet people are fruit loops, axe murderers and 13 year old boys out to get their kicks.
A rallying cry has gone out to save football pitches from the council's axe.
Pascall says one man tried to handcuff him while others attacked him with an axe, a spear and a flail.
A terrified burglary victim was threatened with an axe after finding intruders in his home.
Edwin, under his guidance had to do strenuous physical training which included wood chopping with a hand axe for hours in the hot sun.
The axe finally swung on a career, one can only describe as short and colourful, but great while it lasted.
The lares, penates and relics of our sacred ancestors have been spared the impious axe of Jacobin tyranny.
Luke looked up and seeing Marie, lodged the axe in the chopping block and went to her.
He's had a somewhat chameleonic career which has seen him as prog rock axe hero, fusioneer as well as a mainstream jazzer.
After a few seconds the axe flashes into view, helve over blade, and lands with a heavy slap of foam in the stream.
He is gently hefting a throwing axe sent to him by a Finnish fan and he urges me to try it out on one of his trees.
But Mr Kearney was more than a one-trick pony who took an axe to the cost base.
He who showed quick reactions to stick his ice axe into the ground and hung for several minutes.
What great art or entertainment is stillborn today, afraid of reprisals from some easily offended group with an axe to grind?
The broken glass symbolises the broken faith, broken trust and shattered justice, our axe symbolises the steadfastness of our determination.
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But, following a shake-up of the board and some work being undertaken on the green, the axe has been staved off for the time being.
British Telecom is planning to axe 30,000 call boxes throughout the country.
The knight wore no armor, but carried a sprig of holly in one hand, and an enormous axe in the other.
I polished my axe and the spike on the shield, put on my armor and went out of the tent.
Young people are adding their voice to the chorus of anger over plans to axe Swindon post offices.
The decision to axe the brainwave was nodded through by both Conservative and Labour councillors without debate or comment.
In Romsey, two schools destined for the axe were rolled into one to create a brand new primary school.
The set retails at mid price and those who love the Englishman's way with Puccini should better snap it up before the deletion axe falls.
Now one of the proposals to help reduce the threat of huge council tax increases is to axe spending on concessionary bus fares.
Unlike axe brandishers, slaughterers are deeply respected and admired by the other warriors of their tribe.
In the depths of winter, I also need an ice axe and crampons and food and water in case of emergencies.
The drama of that event is so perfectly evoked you can feel the fear in the room and hear bones crunch as the executioner's axe strikes home.
European Aviation, which based three jumbo jets at Manchester and had regular holiday flights to Florida, has announced plans to axe 560 jobs.
They are simply tools, just like an axe or adze, and only as good as the person using them.
Health chiefs have been rapped on the knuckles after deciding to axe services at a Bishopstoke hospital a year earlier than planned.
Mixed with them was the baying of sheep, the clicking of a axe on wood, and the ting ting of a smith's hammer.
Too little force in the swing and the axe is liable to bounce back and bop you on the nose.
When the house lights go down this fall, a new generation of axe shredders, drummers and fearless frontmen will come together and rock.
In most cases of loan default, the axe always falls on the branch manager and middle-level officers.
The axe can then be removed an sometimes hammered in further along the split.
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He then drew an axe from the sack on his back and walked down to the trees to make a wooden stretcher on which to tie the deer's carcass.
At the moment, it is thought either to be a Neolithic axe rough-out or the work of a modern flint knapper.
The axe almost weighs as much as him, but seven-year-old Weston does not let that stop him prove his woodchop prowess.
I remembered the ring of the woodman's axe in the forests at home, and wished for a few long-sided Green Mountain boys.
The simple woodman's axe he'd been using had long ago lost what little bit of an edge it had possessed before he'd gone to work.
When Barnum's grandfather claimed to know nothing about this detail, the woodcutter threw down his axe in disgust and sat down on the woodpile.
I also suggest he leaves the axe in the woodshed when he next looks for a lobster.
A lecturers' union has declared a trade dispute with the college in response to plans to axe more than 100 jobs.
A boy was expected to grow up tough, and hard working and skilled in handling a spear, axe and knobkerrie.
There is the general indie guitarist moping from the two axe grinders flanking the vocalist, and generally, everybody laps it up.
Today's launch comes less than two weeks after the company announced plans to axe 3000 jobs.
They had to actually get an axe to the beautiful leaded windows to get the water in.
But, despite traversing steep alpine regions, he did not pack crampons, an ice axe or an emergency distress beacon.
Any self-respecting Country Party MP would have taken to the economic dries of the Liberal Party with an axe years ago.
By the ancient berserker instinct, his hand went to his belt where his rune-covered axe normally hung.
At the bottom of this chute, using his ice axe, he leapt a moat where the glacier had melted back from the rock.
One night he armed himself with an axe as Fred and his wife slept at their home.
A teenager who cut a former friend's arm to the bone with an axe during a street fight was warned he faces being locked up.
Jones said hikers should wear crampons, and carry ski poles and an ice axe when heading into the backcountry.
Within certain limits, so long as the axe had a sharp and usable edge, its shape was all the same to them.
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Someone is going to make a killing soon with Prada guitar picks and extra large electronic tuners for the bi-focalled axe master.
On their way down from the summit, traversing along the north ridge, Simpson was descending a ice cliff when his ice axe slipped.
The man threatened to rob Tina's store saying he had a knife, but fled empty-handed after she whacked him with an axe handle.
He said he was beaten with an axe handle or cane, deprived of sleep, and struck on the soles of his feet until they were covered in blisters.
By stepping down hard I actually made a stable foothold, and then used my ice axe to probe the next foothold.
A similar fate nearly befell Mr Hunt who showed quick reactions to stick his ice axe into the ground and hung for several minutes.
I like getting on top of hills, too, although I don't get my ice axe out much.
After the game finished, he was surprised to find the wooden handle of his axe had rotted.
She kept a cabinet full of weapons, including an axe, crossbow, machete, swordstick, cosh, an air rifle and two revolvers, the court was told.
Neither talked for quite a while, both just sat listening to the steady swish, chop, swish, chop, of the axe in the wood.
Upon arrival, you will be trained in swordsmanship, but axe and lance training will be available if you so wish.
John enjoyed the outdoors, gardening, feeding wild turkeys, his dog, sawing and chopping wood with his axe and swede saw.
There were only two parts to an axe or hatchet, the axe head and the handle.
Long-running soap Brookside was last night facing the axe after Channel 4 announced it was moving it from the peak-time evening slot.
Nineteen children's playgrounds may be facing the axe in the latest round of Lancaster City Council cost-cuts.
Cooks at York old peoples' homes are facing the axe under a proposal to buy meals-on-wheels from York District Hospital for residents.
Clayton Heights post office is one of 17 Bradford branches facing the axe after Post Office Ltd announced major restructuring.
Also found was an unbroken half of a two-part mould for a middle Bronze Age palstave, or flanged axe.
There was a squeally axe solo unceremoniously tacked on the end, naturally.
The band's dueling guitars harken back to the arty axe work of the quintessential NYC act Television.
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Free gift of a multipurpose penknife, a karabiner with a compass and a decorative ice axe.
So carry a lightweight rope, harnesses, ice axe, crampons, and ascenders.
Police are still investigating threats to kill Hall, reportedly linked to his decision to axe Clarkson.
And that means they also fall under the umbrella of programs most likely to get the axe when state and federal budgets are tight.
Those who propagate it are considered paranoids or activists with an axe to grind.
She said he pointed the axe out to her in the bedroom and threatened to chop her head off and kill her three-year-old daughter Amy after first sexually abusing her.
These are the latest attempt to revive a flagging peace process between striking security workers and managers who want to axe 150 posts and slash wages by 40 per cent.
The library was facing the axe in a council bid to save cash, but the public fought back to force a U-turn and the library lived to fight another day.
Ogre emerged sporting a large lupine mask, flanked by Key on a synth riser, a live drummer and a guitarist wielding a double-necked axe straight out of a Thor video.
He threw up the axe handle and I chopped the wood almost in two.
They kept on hitting one man with an axe handle and it was unbearable.
I got hit over the head with the axe handle and ended up in hospital.
Sighing dreadfully, he walked out of the wooden door and picked up his axe to begin chopping what he thought was enough fire wood to last for three days.
Lucio was no where to be seen, but Marie heard the sound of an axe chopping wood outside, so she followed the sound into the cold breeze and around the side of the house.
If an axe handle was handy, that wouldn't go astray, either.
Post offices in Pewsham, near Chippenham, and Frampton Cotterell and Hambrook in Gloucestershire are the other branches in the region facing the axe next month.
One guitarist was wielding the same kind of axe Dave Grohl uses.
Ultimately it was this restless search for new lines of axe exploration that led to his becoming bored very quickly with each project he was involved in.
They are also dependent on informers who, as we journalists know, can sometimes misinform, especially if they have an axe to grind or a political goal to pursue.
The man who wrote that mantra last week clearly has an axe to grind.
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I wasn't inspired into public service because I have an axe to grind.
This is persistent damage by someone who has an axe to grind.
And if we form an alliance with the Indians, who have an axe to grind against Pakistan, we'll destabilize Pakistan and maximize our problems in Afghanistan.
Those opposed to the application will cry foul, and those who have an axe to grind will jump on the bandwagon, heedless of the merits and demerits of the scheme.
He and I are both looking at getting somewhere in London, and it would be far better to rent with someone you know than move in with anonymous axe murderers.
When an axe murderer comes at you, it is handy to wield an axe yourself.
Dennis is too busy thanking God we weren't picked up by an axe murderer.
By now the entire band of survivors, including some new recruits, are regular gun toting, axe wielding, shoot 'em, chop 'em up zombie terminators.
The seven objects include small funerary statuettes or shabtis, a bronze axe head, a ceramic bowl and amulets to help the dead find their way to the afterlife.
Instead, they decided to axe the mobile library servicing the town.
With some few exceptions, the Pennsylvania axe generally has a slanted base, sloping towards the back, and complementing the slant at the top of the blade plate.
Both sides should cut their subsidies deeply, or axe them altogether.
It seems that the head of my axe has loosened from its haft.
The war axe is obviously derived from the earliest unhafted hand axes but, once hafted, the axe became as effective a weapon of war as it had been a domestic tool.
The court heard that the axe disappeared but blood stains were found in the caravan and a mark in the roof appeared to show the axe had been raised before the blow was struck.
Included amongst them were a Roman denarius, several silver Roman hammered coins, a Saxon worker's livery badge and a partial bronze axe head dating back some 2,500 years.
To do that, you have a dozen weapons from the simple dagger to the heavy double-bladed axe.
If you had read the title of this story, you would think that this story will be a scary ghost story or a story about a murderer with an axe but I am afraid it is not.
Included in the equipment, and of interest in this occurrence, are an axe, a pry bar, and four flashlights.
His play, based on the real-life axe murder of a woman and her daughter by two maids, features fantasy, role-playing, floridity.
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Another sculpture, Albert the Lumberjack, stands guard on site, while a huge axe and peavey rest on top of two display huts.
Meat axe or saw for cutting cuts into pieces of appropriate size for the mincer.
A second crew member suffered a lacerated hand when he came in contact with some broken glass while retrieving a fire axe.
Hand tools like the axe and the adze have thousands of years of history.
The latter kills an old usurer and her sister with an axe, and comes into contact with the Detective later.
Then we are all on pins and needles, using all our energy and resources waiting for the axe to fall again.
When you lay siege to a city for a long time...do not destroy its trees by putting an axe to them, because you can eat their fruit.
Digging through frozen piles of litter with only an ice axe and a sack is backbreaking and unprofitable.
The star was Johnson – part axe god, part philosopher-poet, part Essex suburbanite.
Acid rain has by now become an incalculably more effective destroyer of trees than the axe or saw.
Yet many people wonder whether Mr Hirai, a Sony lifer who joined the company in 1984, has the gumption to take an axe to its divisions.
The emperor tried to execute him but the blade of the axe broke each time they tried to behead him.
I grabbed my helmet and my ice axe and rushed out of the tent and threw my ice axe into the ground.
Hainz was one of the main influencers in the development of this futuristic ice axe.
For this last climb you will need to put your crampons on and an ice axe can be useful depending on the conditions.
The rest of the route involves real climbing, with a backpack, ice axe, crampons and ropes, and halts to acclimatize to the altitude.
One of the men, Paul Taylor, drove an ice axe deep into Anthony's skull, killing him.
Standard for ski touring with a rescue kit in the crevasses, crampons and an ice axe should you intend to climb one of the 4,000 m summits.
We dug a grave in the snow and buried him with his ice axe like the Viking he resembled, childish perhaps but it seemed right to me at the time.
And, what had to happen finally happened: ineluctable destiny, the axe of the parliamentary agenda, the dissolution of Parliament.
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The French were giving our troops axe handles earlier on to beat off the wild dogs.
Deadfall that is blocking the trail should be removed with an axe or a swede saw so that new trails are not created.
Then barkers retrieve bark using an axe and a special iron barking tool called a spud.
Description: In the Green River region, we see a man debarking a log using an axe and a spud.
He cut timber and removed branches with an axe for Fraser Companies. We see him here with a 4-foot long debarked log.
A farmer was using a well-used, dull, rusted axe to cut a huge oak tree on his property.
A snowplow driver got the axe after posting a video of himself gleefully dumping snowdrifts onto cars earlier this winter.
The axe can then be hammered in further with a wooden mallet.
They are often badly damaged by being hit with an axe or maul and must be replaced.
A log cabin with axe, saw and wheel barrow which absolutely has to be positioned in the forest.
Today the tool, described as combining an axe with either a mattock or grub hoe, is sold for gardening and clearing nature trails, as well as firefighting.
In the terror which followed, the wealth of the prosperous merchants made them a particular target, and axe, rope, and fire consumed the natural leaders of Dutch society.
Besides the radio, he had acquired a large toolbox packed with tools, two rifles, a shotgun, several boxes of ammunition, a long-handled axe, a crowbar, and a first-aid kit.
A bicipital axe was a cultic physical object of the Minoan civilisation.
Not even from the Northern Germany megalithic culture, a drilled axe has been reported that was made of Silex and thus of a material of comparable hardness.
My ice axe, tied to my wrist by its nylon sling, was flailing around wildly and every time the snow engulfed me, I choked as it went in my eyes, up my nose and into my ears.
The axe shaved off an inch of steel off of the broadsword's blade.
Because of the way it is constructed, the socket on a goosewing axe can rather easily be slanted, or canted away from the plane of the blade by the blacksmith.
Ministers are promising to take an axe to regulations governing schools, handing headteachers carte blanche to design the curriculum in their school as they wish.
The way the studs work is based on the same principle as an ice axe.
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The computer staff will get pink slips too, but it is reasonable to infer the axe will fall most heavily on software sales and back office workers.
Ancroe broke his opponent's sword with his axe and then decapitated him.
After the arm and axe were replaced the statue was again vandalised on Christmas Eve 2008, losing its axe.
The CEW was deployed on the son who immediately dropped the axe and fell to the ground, allowing our officers to gain physical control, handcuff the individual and place him in the police car.
With the exception of the stone axe, none of these motifs are definite, and the name used to describe them is largely for convenience.
My ice axe whacked into the slope and stuck fast.
Peter mused, jokingly, about crampons and ice axe.
Each had crampons over his boots and an ice axe in one hand.
I was kitted out with rental boots, ice axe and crampons.
But I'd been using my hand, for my ice axe.
Front ski and ice axe attachments available as optional extras.
Abrasion-resistant, adjustable attachment for an ice axe.
This programme is designed for experienced climbers and it is essential that you are already confident using crampons and ice axe and used to moving on glaciated terrain.
They had great weather most of the week and managed to pretty much stick to the plans. The week started with the traditional ice axe and crampon training on the Mer de Glace.
From here we ascend a long snow slope to the final piece of technical ground, which can be very steep and requires good front pointing technique and use of an ice axe.
Controls: Press cursor arrow 'Up' to bat the ice axe in the ice.
He would even do a bit of coppicing himself, when given an axe and half a chance though he never needed an excuse, as friends found, to linger long in woods. The hollow pollardDanger now came mostly from a different quarter.
He and George Osborne, the shadow chancellor, have identified a few programmes to axe, such as Labour's pointless identity-card scheme, some costly databases and the odd quango: things few people cherish or would miss.
As such, warns Alberto Ramos of Goldman Sachs, the axe is likely to fall on investment, which is already piffling by emerging-world standards but over which the government has greater discretion.
Once you are used to the spindrifts and blowing snow of the Highlands and to placing your ice axe into a vague crack full of frozen grass, you are more than ready to climb under the blue sky of the Alps or Colorado.
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Calmly he attached two leather bottles to his braided vine belt, collected the sharp pointed assegais, grasped the heavy stone axe and tried it for a moment before tying it to his side.
They then cut his body into nine pieces using a jig-saw, an axe and a bow saw before packing the parts in bin liners and laundry bags.
In contrast, Wrecking Ball moves straight from the close-up of Cyrus to scenes of her gyrating in a crop top and knickers, fellating an axe and writhing naked on a ball.
The Council is being self-congratulatory while ably wielding the axe.
Timbers were squared for construction using a broad axe, a smaller axe for scoring the wood and, if desired, an adze to further smooth and shape the timber.
He appears as a woodcutter with an axe about his neck, big shoes, a torn coat, bristly hair, and a large beard.
In this picture we see a logger holding an axe.
He sought death by the axe and begged mercy from the King for his young family.
Hopes are growing that controversial plans to axe scores of public telephone boxes across Northumberland are being scaled down by BT bosses.
Mainly I use the felling axe, snedding axe, side axe, saws, billhooks, slasher, froe or riving axe, adze and a drawknife.
The impetuous Mesrine is no 15-year-old punk testing his father's authority, but a 30-something former soldier with a nonspecific axe to grind and a talent for armed robbery.
Hamachek keeps his tale tongue-in-cheek so that he has no apparent axe to grind, but still gives credence to cutthroats.
I HAVE no political axe to grind, but I know beyond any doubt that I am not and never have been a Thatcherite.
A METAL detecting enthusiast has unearthed a 3,000-year-old bronze age axe in a farmer's field.
You had better believe I have an axe to grind with him after what he said about me!
Thousands of fans were expected to take part in the demonstration over the SRU's decision to axe the Border Reivers pro-team.
He picked up the mattock, which combines an axe head and a prying tool, and went inside.
Bowie knives, two bill hooks and an axe switch blade were among 2,606 knives handed in to Northumbria Police last summer.
Normality returned with the arrival of Lord Mandelson, a man more used to half-truths than full ones, yet always first in line with the executioner's axe.
This represents a U-turn on their plans to axe the service from next month as part of a national shake up of air mail flights.
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For example, the Acheulean hand axe tradition lasted for more than one million years in Africa, Asia, and Europe.
The axe should be much thicker on the blade side of the stop bar than the hafting side.
So he built the guillotine using a hand axe and a sprung hinge, waited until his wife and son went out, and used it to sever his hand.
One of the robbers was armed with a small hand axe and threatened the female workers before stealing two cash registers from the counter.
That was when I learned that every Taswegian worth his salt carries an axe in his boot and, more often than not, two in case of axe-less friends.
Moments later I nearly have my head sliced off by a foam Viking axe thoughtfully presented as a useful historic present by a well-meaning aunt.
A stone axe dating from 2500 BC has also been found in the area in the River Douglas in Tigers Clough.
Snow on a slope spells danger and crampons and ice axe and the skills to use them are required.
Radiocarbon dating at the Langdale stone axe factory site suggests that it was in operation for about 1,000 years during the Neolithic period.
Removing those defects by polishing makes the axe much stronger, and able to withstand impact and shock loads from use.
Polishing the rough surfaces will have improved the mechanical strength of the axe as well as lowering friction when used against wood.
Then I couldn't remember which seat the fire axe was stored beneath so I crawled along the aisle on all fours pretending to have lost some money.
A fire axe with the original name was still in its box outside the carpenter's shop.
They split nurse Neil McLennan's head with a fire axe and speared inmate Ian Simpson with a garden fork.
They have been able to reconstruct the production methods and trade patterns employed by the axe makers.
They used an axe to break into 68 sheds and took expensive items, including strimmers, generators, rotivators, drills and flame guns.
Inscriptions on this axe have been compared with other ancient writing systems.
The Arkalochori Axe is a bronze, Minoan, axe from the second millennium BC thought to be used for religious purposes.
Few wooden hafts have been found from this period, but it seems that the axe was normally hafted by wedging.
However, in France and Holland, the billhook often replaced the axe as a joiner's bench tool.
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For fine chopping using a side axe this sometimes is a positive effect, but for felling with a double bitted axe it reduces efficiency.
But what allowed forest clearance on a large scale was the polished stone axe above all other tools.
The axe is an example of a simple machine, as it is a type of wedge, or dual inclined plane.
A hand axe is made by chipping stone, generally flint, to form a bifacial edge, or wedge.
The executioner was proud that he kept his axe razor-sharp, so no prisoner would feel any pain when his head was cut off.
The defendant then struck the deceased with an axe which was an accident of availability.
The rods symbolized the power of scourging, and the axe the power of capital punishment.
A common figure in these rock carvings is that of a male figure carrying what appears to be an axe or hammer.
Afterwards the King merely expressed regret that he had broken the shaft of his favourite axe.
Bohun charged at Bruce and when the two passed side by side, Bruce split Bohun's head with his axe.
The stone was quarried and rough axe heads were produced there, to be more finely worked and polished elsewhere.
The musician swung the bass over his head like an axe and smashed it into the amplifier, creating a discordant howl of noise.
The greenstone industry was important in the English Lake District, and is known as the Langdale axe industry.
Thus, a thrown hand axe would not usually have penetrated deeply enough to cause very serious injuries.
The man who can string the bow and shoot it through a dozen axe heads would win.
Gladstone holding his coat on my arm while he, in his shirt sleeves, was wielding an axe to cut down a tree.
They have neither bows nor slings, no missile weapons except the double edged axe and the angon which they use most often.
A polaski is a cross between a pick, an standard axe, and a broad axe. It is used to cut through buried roots.
Samurai swords, an axe, scalpels, screwdrivers, knives, knuckle dusters and even a nunchaku was seized after being used in violence.
A Scout never damages a tree by hacking it with his knife or axe.
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Given that the pry bar was stronger than the crash axe, the pry bar may have been a more effective tool to use when, for example, the flight crew attempted to free the trapped hand of one of the passengers.
In previous years, the Marché du Film, round the back of the Palais, was the go-to place for films about axe murderers and chainsaw psychos, nympho killers and snuff maniacs.
At Oasis Watercoolers plant, Ballina, Co Mayo, 40 people face the axe and 14 jobs are to go at Feldhues meat processors in Clones, Co Monaghan.
The statue was vandalised on New Year's Eve 2007, losing part of its right arm and axe.
Finding a place for the axe to lodge is trickier than it looks and as for the feet, let's just say I spend more time hanging powerlessly from the rope than climbing.
Brandishing an axe, he led his Jarl Squad Brandishing an axe, he led his Jarl Squad as the Shetland Isles's sles's Up HellyAa celebrations began.
The decision to axe regional ABC facilities is a political one used to inflict pain on Coalition electorates, a government MP has told Guardian Australia.
The axe has many forms and specialised uses but generally consists of an axe head with a handle, or helve.
He had a hand axe in his pocket and drunkenly kicked down a fence then banged on his ex-pal's door.
When a discovery is made, such as that of the stone axe or of the electron, the discoverer cannot possibly foresee the uses to which it may be put by succeeding generations.
If you pick up an axe and swing it once, you just make a dent.
A Stone Age hand axe, dating back half a million years, has been discovered in a Warwickshire quarry.
When the masked stranger hew with his axe, the baker's head did split in twain and his body fell like a lump to the ground in turn.
On a side note, Olyrh the Killer is said to owe his name to a light skirmish with a God, three balrogs and twelve ice giants: the hero came out of it with a slightly redder axe and somewhat mussed hair.
There is some scattered evidence of Late Mesolithic to Bronze Age activity in Ely such as Neolithic flint tools, a Bronze Age axe and spearhead.
The well was cleaned out and yielded a quantity of old iron, including axe and hammer heads, bucket hoops, a piece of chain with a swivel in it, and a stout pocket knife.
Without an ice axe or crampons this presents a serious obstacle.
Langdale had a productive stone axe industry during the Neolithic period.
You came to me with the axe head in one hand and the stale in the other.
And to honour his 27 years with the fire service, Mr Robinson's family had placed his helmet and fire axe on top of his coffin as it was carried into the chapel.

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