Axe, instrument to hew timber, to chop wood, or to kill cattle: “a butcher with an a.” H6B III, 2, 189. “many strokes, though with a little a., hew down the oak,” H6C II, 1, 54. II, 2, 165. V, 2, 11. Tit. III, 1, 185. Tit. III, 1, 185 Tim. V, 1, 214. Metaphorically: “is hacked down and his summer leaves all faded by murder's bloody a.” R2 I, 2, 21. “hew my way out with a bloody a.” H6C III, 2, 181.
Especially the executioner's axe: Meas. IV, 2, 56. IV, 3, 39. Merch. IV, 1, 125. As III, 5, 5. H6B II, 4, 49. H8 II, 1, 61. III, 2, 264. Rom. III, 3, 22. Hml. IV, 5, 218. V, 2, 24. Per. I, 2, 58.
Shakespeare Lexicon. Alexander Schmidt. Berlin. Georg Reimer. 1902.
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