palstave

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noun

A prehistoric bronze axe of the middle Bronze Age with a thin haft for a forked handle and a thick blade.

OriginDanish paalstav →
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Meanings

nounpalstave (plural palstaves)

plural palstaves

  1. A prehistoric bronze axe of the middle Bronze Age with a thin haft for a forked handle and a thick blade.

    The later division of the Bronze age is characterised by the appearance of swords, spears, palstaves, and socketed celts.

    1880, William Boyd Dawkins, Early Man in Britain and His Place in the Tertiary Period

Origin

  1. Danishpaalstav
  2. Englishpalstave

From Danish paalstav.

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Translations

German Absatzbeil
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Swedish avsatsyxa
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APA

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Chicago

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