Meanings
nounmoot-axe (plural moot-axes)
plural moot-axes
- West CountryA specialised axe for cutting tree stumps.
The total area within the Romano-British fortress is perhaps three acres, and the fact that the explorer is no longer young and was single-handed quite precluded any extensive trenching in the hard and stony soil with no implements other than a shovel, a small spade and a moot-axe.
1919, J. Allen Bartlett, “Report on a Search for the Site of the Chapel of St. Blasius, Henbury”, in Edwin Sidney Hartland, editor, Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, volume 41, page 164
Origin
From moot (“tree stump”) + axe.
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