hand axe

Senso (Inglese)

1. A stone tool made by flaking to produce an edge, used without a handle.
2. A hatchet or throwing axe.

Concetti

bifacciale

sinonimi

hand ax

biface

Traduzioni

Faustkeil

biface

Zweiseiter

Etimologia (Inglese)

Ereditato da inglese medio: hand-ax

Ereditato da inglese antico: handæx

In summary

From Middle English hand-ax, handax, handex, hond axe, from Old English handæx, from Proto-Germanic *handakwisī; equivalent to hand + axe.