Axe vs. Maul — What's the Difference?

An axe (sometimes ax in American English; see spelling differences) is an implement that has been used for millennia to shape, split and cut wood, to harvest timber, as a weapon, and as a ceremonial or heraldic symbol. The axe has many forms and specialised uses but generally consists of an axe head with a handle, or helve.

A heavy, long-handled hammer used especially to drive stakes, piles, or wedges.

A tool used for chopping wood, typically of iron with a steel edge and wooden handle

A heavy hammer having a wedge-shaped head and used for splitting logs.

A musical instrument used in popular music or jazz, especially a guitar or (originally) a saxophone.

A play in rugby in which a mass of players gathers around a ball carrier being tackled and attempts to gain possession of the ball when it is released.

End, cancel, or dismiss suddenly and ruthlessly

The mass of players during such a play.

Cut or strike with an axe, especially violently or destructively

To injure or mutilate, as by scratching or beating

A tool with a bladed, usually heavy head mounted crosswise on a handle, used for felling trees or chopping wood.

A heavy long-handled hammer, used for splitting logs by driving a wedge into them, or in combat.

Any of various bladed, handheld implements used as a cutting tool or weapon.

(rugby) A situation where the player carrying the ball, who must be on his feet, is held by one or more opponents, and one or more of the ball carrier's team mates bind onto the ball carrier.

(Informal) A sudden termination of employment

To handle someone or something in a rough way.

(Slang) A musical instrument, especially a guitar.

To savage; to cause serious physical wounds usually used of an animal.

To chop or fell with or as if with an axe

(figuratively) To criticise harshly.

(Informal) To remove ruthlessly or suddenly

(transitive) To beat with a maul.

Variant of ax2.

A heavy wooden hammer or beetle.

A tool for felling trees or chopping wood etc. consisting of a heavy head flattened to a blade on one side, and a handle attached to it.

To beat and bruise with a heavy stick or cudgel; to wound in a coarse manner.

An ancient weapon consisting of a head that has one or two blades and a long handle.

To injure greatly; to do much harm to.

(informal) A dismissal or rejection.

A heavy long-handled hammer used to drive stakes or wedges

(figurative) A drastic reduction or cutback.

Split (wood) with a maul and wedges

A gigging musician's particular instrument, especially a guitar in rock music or a saxophone in jazz.

Injure badly by beating

(finance) A position, interest, or reason in buying and selling stock, often with ulterior motives.

(archaic) The axle of a wheel.

(transitive) To fell or chop with an axe.

To lay off, terminate or drastically reduce, especially in a rough or ruthless manner; to cancel.

To furnish with an axle.

Alternative form of ask

See Ax, Axman.

An edge tool with a heavy bladed head mounted across a handle

Chop or split with an ax;

Terminate;