palstave

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Danish paalstav.

Noun[edit]

palstave (plural palstaves)

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  1. A prehistoric bronze axe of the middle Bronze Age with a thin haft for a forked handle and a thick blade.
    • 1880, William Boyd Dawkins, Early Man in Britain and His Place in the Tertiary Period:
      The later division of the Bronze age is characterised by the appearance of swords, spears, palstaves, and socketed celts.

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References[edit]

“palstave”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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