• Ax

    Pronunciation

    • enPR: ăks, IPA: /æks/
    • Rhymes: -æks

    Origin 1

    See axe.

    Full definition of ax

    Noun

    ax

    (plural axes)
    1. Alternative spelling of axe

    Verb

    1. Alternative spelling of axe

    Origin 2

    Old English acsian, showing metathesis from ascian. The regular literary form until circa 1600.

    Verb

    1. (now dialectal or nonstandard) Alternative form of ask
      • 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Acts I:When they were come togedder, they axed off hym, sayinge: Master wilt thou at this tyme restore agayne the kyngdom of israhel?
      • 1979, Verna Mae Slone, What My Heart Wants to Tell, Kentucky 1988, p. 18:‘I axed him if he knowed the way and he said he had not fergitten the lay of the land.’----
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