zax
/zæks/noun
Elementary
1
A tool, similar to a hatchet, used to prepare slate for roofing.
Inherited from Middle English sax (“knife”), from Old English seax, from Proto-West Germanic *sahs, from Proto-Germanic *sahsą. Doublet of sax.
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