palstave

English

Etymology

Danish paalstav.

Noun

palstave (plural palstaves)

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.

Translations

Translations

• German: Absatzbeil

References

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