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axes

noun as in large cutting tool

noun as in point around which something revolves

verb as in cut with large blade

verb as in dismiss

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But Neil and the chrome hearts would also swap their axes for acoustic guitars.

From Salon

That includes foreign adversaries, and even certain allies with their own axes to grind.

From Salon

As for the impressive flight sequences, in which Hiccup rides Toothless, the production created an animatronic dragon placed on a giant gimbal that moved on six different axes to simulate the physics of flying.

One account said the Russians paid the Kashia Pomo people already living there “three blankets, two axes, three hoes, and a miscellaneous assortment of beads” for the use of the land.

At burials excavated at one site, over 85 iron objects - knives, arrowhead, rings, chisels, axes and swords - were found inside and outside burial urns.

From BBC

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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