Axe vs. Tomahawk: What's the Difference?

A tool with a bladed, usually heavy head mounted crosswise on a handle, used for felling trees or chopping wood.

A light axe formerly used as a tool or weapon by certain Native American peoples.

Any of various bladed, handheld implements used as a cutting tool or weapon.

A similar implement or weapon.

(Informal) A sudden termination of employment

To strike with or as if with a tomahawk.

(Slang) A musical instrument, especially a guitar.

An ax used by Native American warriors.

To chop or fell with or as if with an axe

(basketball) A dunk performed with one's arm behind one's head.

(Informal) To remove ruthlessly or suddenly

(geometry) A geometric construction consisting of a semicircle and two line segments that serves as a tool for trisecting an angle; so called from its resemblance to the American Indian axe.

Variant of ax2.

(field hockey) A field hockey shot style that involves a player turning their hockey stick upside-down and swinging it so that its inside edge will come into contact with the ball.

A tool for felling trees or chopping wood etc. consisting of a heavy head flattened to a blade on one side, and a handle attached to it.

To strike or cut up with a tomahawk.

An ancient weapon consisting of a head that has one or two blades and a long handle.

(historical) To girdle or incise the trees around (an area of land) so as to claim ownership of it.

(informal) A dismissal or rejection.

(basketball) To perform a tomahawk dunk.

(figurative) A drastic reduction or cutback.

A kind of war hatchet used by the American Indians. It was originally made of stone, but afterwards of iron.

A gigging musician's particular instrument, especially a guitar in rock music or a saxophone in jazz.

To cut, strike, or kill, with a tomahawk.

(finance) A position, interest, or reason in buying and selling stock, often with ulterior motives.

Weapon consisting of a fighting ax; used by North American indians

(archaic) The axle of a wheel.

Cut with a tomahawk

(transitive) To fell or chop with an axe.

Kill with a tomahawk

To lay off, terminate or drastically reduce, especially in a rough or ruthless manner; to cancel.

To furnish with an axle.

Alternative form of ask

See Ax, Axman.

An edge tool with a heavy bladed head mounted across a handle

Chop or split with an ax;

Terminate;