I. noun
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■ NOUN
ice
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Straps/attachment points: ice axe loop and snap.
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He urged mountain users to be properly equipped, saying crampons and an ice axe were essential.
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A full rack should be taken and ice axes and crampons may be needed up to about August.
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Carrying an ice axe is, however, a wise precaution.
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Using his one good hand, he inched down to Angerer and with his ice axe cut him loose.
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Straps/attachment points: two lashing patches on lid; no ice axe loop.
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After all, the last political figure to receive an ice axe , was assassinated with it!
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If this fails to stop you being pulled off, get straight into the ice axe arrest position.
■ VERB
swing
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Manager Lennie Lawrence will swing the axe at Swindon and demand 90-minute commitment.
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He imagines himself somewhere else, far away from here, walking through the woods and swinging an axe over his shoulder.
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No need to swing the axe here, just slot the picks on to the cracks between the welded icicles.
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Bowring's control broke, and he swung the axe toward the unbearable sight of the grinning face.
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He rides a massive chariot pulled by three wolves, and swings his mighty axe Elf-Biter.
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It is the same as swinging an axe to chop down a tree.
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I started swinging the axe at the lumps of driftwood.
use
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Get axe . 14. Use the axe to chop down the tree on the scarecrow screen. 15.
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A jealous husband using an axe on his wife.
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Male speaker Neolithic man would have used an axe to cut the trees.
wield
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I should prefer to watch him in the primeval forests of his native land, wielding an axe against some giant tree.
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People who wielded axes and carving knives.
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A dozen men and women clad in furs were polishing axes and broadswords monotonously, mindlessly.
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Attractive young women fanned him as he simultaneously read, wrote, waved an axe and held a flower aloft.
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Her brother Arijs was an axe murderer.
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In Crete, we also find the double axe engraved on stalactite columns in caves.
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Suppose now that we wish to search the database for axes similar in shape to some given axe.
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The strong hand of Skeggi, still half-laid on his axe .
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When they returned each carried a handful of small axes.
II. verb
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job
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The company has axed 3,600 jobs this year.
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Michelin is axing 16,000 jobs and has spent £460m on restructuring in the last two years.
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The company has now axed more than 2,000 jobs in the last 18 months following a dramatic sales slump.
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Northern Foods is axing 3,000 jobs and closing smaller factories in order to cut group costs.
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This led to companies like Dupont axing 189,000 jobs on a global basis.
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The company is planning to axe 15,000 more jobs in the next two years.
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And there was almost a mass brawl 10 minutes before the break after Mark Robson was axed by Gianfranco Parlato.
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Boro striker Bernie Slaven looked angry before the kick-off after he was axed.
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But axing Julia won't save the revamped News At Ten.
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Ironically, he was axed less than three weeks before Boro's first Wembley appearance.
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More than 9,000 staff have been axed and about another 11,000 have departed in businesses sold off.
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Now his firm has been axed from school duties in Swansea and faces prosecution.