Axstone: Definition and part of speech

Axstone

  1. n. A variety of jade. It is used by some savages, particularly the natives of the South Sea Islands, for making axes or hatchets.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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