axblade

plural axblades

1. American spelling of axeblade.

   The Marlfox ignored the gibe, listening to the steady ring of axblades against oakwood.

   1999, Brian Jacques, “Act Three: The Queen’s Island”, in Marlfox (Redwall), 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Philomel Books, →ISBN, page 296

   2 more examples

   Another sank to his knees, clutching at his throat where a hand like an axblade had crushed his larynx; […]

   1967, Frank Yerby, chapter 21, in Goat Song: A Novel of Ancient Greece, New York, N.Y.: The Dial Press, Inc., page 368

   I look up at the sky, at blue air and drifting cloud, up there where the wide spaces cleave the spirit like an axblade, I bid the whispering and too-high heavens farewell, then I cast my eyes downward, toward the rising earth, toward the solid place, the human turmoil.

   1998, Steven Millhauser, “Balloon Flight, 1870”, in The Knife Thrower and Other Stories, New York, N.Y.: Crown Publishers, Inc., →ISBN, page 179