It was published in a collection in 1815 titled "Essays From the Desk of Poor Robert the Scribe." The story ("Who'll Turn the Grindstone?") has been misattributed since late 19c. Synonyms for BATTLE-AXE: battle-ax, broadax, married woman, wife, broadaxe, battle-axe, lecture, common scold, rag, olive drab, cocotte, peck, hellcat. (informal) A belligerent and often unattractive person, especially a woman. editor and politician Charles Miner (1780-1865) in which a man flatters a boy and gets him to do the chore of axe-grinding for him, then leaves without offering thanks or recompense. 7, 1810, essay in the Luzerne (Pennsylvania) "Gleaner" by U.S. ) 1 noun informal, pejorative womanraicleach fem c m urlach fembirseach fem2 c m u 2 noun HIST, MIL weapontua chatha. Meaning "musical instrument" is 1955, originally jazz slang for the saxophone rock slang for "guitar" dates to 1967. eyes that it suggests pedantry & is unlikely to be restored. In recent years, many women have protested the use of the word battle-axe. The spelling ax, though "better on every ground, of etymology, phonology, & analogy" (OED), is so strange to 20th-c. During those days, people began to call a fierce-acting woman a battle-axe. It was once fairly common to demean a forceful older woman by. Battle Axes features axe throwing experiences in Dallas Fort-Worth, TX. The spelling ax is better on every ground, of etymology, phonology, and analogy, than axe, which became prevalent during the 19th century but it is now disused in Britain. Heres a wake up call to battered, embittered and embattled women to rise up and depart from seemingly endless violence. The Vikings, Normans, ancient Chinese warriors, and Napoleonic troops all carried battle-axes. "edged instrument for hewing timber and chopping wood," also a battle weapon, Old English ces (Northumbrian acas) "axe, pickaxe, hatchet," later x, from Proto-Germanic *akusjo (source also of Old Saxon accus, Old Norse ex, Old Frisian axe, German Axt, Gothic aqizi), from PIE *agw(e)si- "axe" (source also of Greek axine, Latin ascia).
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