axel

plural axels

1. figure skatingA jump that includes one (or more than one) complete turn and a half turn while in the air.

   Men had to do triple Axels or at least attempt them with tenacity.

   1997, Beverley Smith, A Year in Figure Skating, page 115

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   Wylie, however, landed his Olympic axels beautifully and electrified the crowd as he capped a skating career that began at age three in Aspen, Colorado, when he followed two older sisters onto the ice.

   1991, Harvard Magazine, volume 94, page 44

   […]King et al. (1994) and King (1997) compared single, double, and triple axels of junior and senior level skaters; Albert and Miller (1996) compared single and double axels of “good” figure skaters;[…].

   2005, Canadian Journal of Applied Physiology, volume 30, page 746

   Synonyms: axel jump

present singular third person axels · participle present axeling · participle present axelling · participle past axeled · past axeled · participle past axelled · past axelled

1. intransitivefigure skatingTo perform a jump of this kind.

1. misspellingMisspelling of axle.

   Ten 4-wheel hose wagons, three with ballbearing axels and one with roller-bearing axels, all manufactured in the city.

   1900, Municipal Reports of the City of Grand Rapids, Michigan, page 85

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   This end of the Axel is to be faſten'd into a Wheel, exactly like thoſe, which are us'd in many Places, for the roaſting Meat.

   1755, “A Country Gentleman”, in A New System of Agriculture; Or, A Plain, Easy, and Demonſtrative Method of ſpeedily growing Rich, page 177

   1944, Private and Local Acts Passed by the Legislature of Wisconsin, Publisher not identified, page 627, The gross weight on any 2 or more axels shall not exceed 26,000 pounds plus 1,000 pounds for each foot of distance measured longitudinally to the nearest foot between the foremost and rearmost of the axels under consideration.

plural Axels

1. A male given name from the Germanic languages in quiet use since the 19th century.

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   The riots began after misinformation circulated widely online about the identity and motives of the suspect in the Southport murders, who was named on Thursday as 17-year-old Axel Rudakubana. The media had been unable to name the teenager, who was born in Cardiff to Rwandan parents, because he is under 18.

   2024 August 1, Josh Halliday, Neha Gohil, “Police in England urged to protect mosques as far right plans more rallies”, in The Guardian

2. A surname.