Chip-ax

[f. CHIP v.¹ + AX sb.] A small ax used with one hand for cutting timber into the required shape. (Formerly, sometimes an adze.)

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1407. Test. Ebor. (1836), I. 347. Lego Petro meo apprenticio j chipax.

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1529. More, Comf. agst. Trib., II. Wks. 1187/1. A carpenter stoode hewing with his chyppe axe vpon a pece of timber.

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1609. Bible (Douay), Ps. lxxiii[iv.] 6. In hatchets, and chippeaxe they have cast it downe.

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1611. Cotgr., Aisceau, a Chip-axe, or one-handed plane-axe, wherewith Carpenters hew their timber smooth.

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1681. W. Robertson, Phraseol. Gen., 192/1. A little plaining-ax or Chip-ax.

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1745. trans. Columella’s Husb., II. ii. Let the ploughman make no less use of a chip-ax than of a plough-share.

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1874. Knight, Dict. Mech., Chip-ax, a small, single-handed ax used in chipping or listing a block.

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