squaw axe †

Hist.

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a small hatchet used by Indian women in their work.

Quotations

1948

The history of hatchets and axes [must include] the half axe, the broad axe, the squaw axe and the almost endless variations of the metal tomahawks.