stone axe

The word has come to be somewhat loosely applied to metal as well as stone axe-heads.

Even Ang, with his strength and cunning and great stone axe and sharp knives, was in constant danger.

As she locked him in her arms to comfort him, Ang suddenly leaped out of the darkness, his great stone axe swinging in his hands.

My father and I used to dress for dinner, but we always carried the stone axe under our coats.

Let us however look a little closer into the long, long period during which the "fire and stone-axe methods" of farming prevailed.