Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Ax \Ax\, Axe \Axe\,, n. [OE. ax, axe, AS. eax, [ae]x, acas; akin
   to D. akse, OS. accus, OHG. acchus, G. axt, Icel. ["o]x,
   ["o]xi, Sw. yxe, Dan. ["o]kse, Goth. aqizi, Gr. ?, L. ascia;
   not akin to E. acute.]
   A tool or instrument of steel, or of iron with a steel edge
   or blade, for felling trees, chopping and splitting wood,
   hewing timber, etc. It is wielded by a wooden helve or
   handle, so fixed in a socket or eye as to be in the same
   plane with the blade. The broadax, or carpenter's ax, is an
   ax for hewing timber, made heavier than the chopping ax, and
   with a broader and thinner blade and a shorter handle.

   Note: The ancient battle-ax had sometimes a double edge.

   Note: The word is used adjectively or in combination; as,
         axhead or ax head; ax helve; ax handle; ax shaft;
         ax-shaped; axlike.

   Note: This word was originally spelt with e, axe; and so also
         was nearly every corresponding word of one syllable:
         as, flaxe, taxe, waxe, sixe, mixe, pixe, oxe, fluxe,
         etc. This superfluous e is not dropped; so that, in
         more than a hundred words ending in x, no one thinks of
         retaining the e except in axe. Analogy requires its
         exclusion here.

   Note: ``The spelling ax is better on every ground, of
         etymology, phonology, and analogy, than axe, which has
         of late become prevalent.'' --New English Dict.
         (Murray).

Axe \Axe\, Axeman \Axe"man\, etc.
   See {Ax}, {Axman}.

Source : WordNet®

axe
     n : an edge tool with a heavy bladed head mounted across a
         handle [syn: {ax}]

axe
     v 1: chop or split with an ax; "axe wood" [syn: {ax}]
     2: terminate; "The NSF axed the research program and stopped
        funding it" [syn: {ax}]

Source : Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing

aXe
     
         A {text editor} for the {X Window System}.  No longer
        maintained.
     
        (1998-03-13)