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