trail axe

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a light, short-handled axe, or hatchet, carried by persons on the trail, used for cutting away underbrush, chopping wood for fires, etc.

Quotations

1954

I . . . hit the high spots back to camp, knocking what ice I could off my snowshoes with the back of my trail axe as I went.

1959

We packed the sled with . . . a trail ax, and our two guns lashed well forward on top of the load.