1. A two-edged ax used for hewing stone.
c. 1000. Ælfric, Gloss., in Wr.-Wülcker, 141. Bipennis, twibille uel stanæx.
c. 1357[?]. Durham Acc. Rolls (Surtees), 560. Pro Stanaxes, Hakkes, [etc.].
1483. Cath. Angl., 359/2. A Sstane axe, vbi A mason Axe.
1533. MS. Rawl. D. 776 lf. 147 b. For a stone axe ffor lyk vse.
1875. Knight, Dict. Mech., Stone-axe, an axe with two somewhat obtuse edges, used in spawling and hewing stone.
2. An ax made of stone.
1864. H. Woodward, in Intell. Observ., V. 180. Stone axe of Serpentine.
1865. Lubbock, Preh. Times, iv. (1878), 98. The North American stone axe or tomahawk.
