What does "edge tool" mean?

A tool or weapon with a sharpened edge or blade.

What is a synonym for "edge tool"?

Common synonyms include: adz, ax, blade, bread knife, bushwhacker, butcher knife.

Edge tool

noun

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Definitions

Noun

1
A tool or weapon with a sharpened edge or blade. archaic
"1577, Holinshed’s Chronicles, London: John Hunne, Volume 2, “Of the Marueyles of Englande,” Chapter 18, There is a Well […] in Wales, which is sayde to double or trible, the force of any edge toole that is quenched in the same."
2
any cutting tool with a sharp cutting edge (as a chisel or knife or plane or gouge) wordnet

Synonyms

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adz ax blade bread knife bushwhacker butcher knife

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"1577, Holinshed’s Chronicles, London: John Hunne, Volume 2, “Of the Marueyles of Englande,” Chapter 18, There is a Well […] in Wales, which is sayde to double or trible, the force of any edge toole that is quenched in the same."

Etymology

From Middle English egge tool.

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