What does "hand axe" mean?

A stone tool made by flaking to produce an edge, used without a handle.

What is a synonym for "hand axe"?

Common synonyms include: biface, hand ax, hatchet, hatchets.

noun

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Noun

1
A stone tool made by flaking to produce an edge, used without a handle.
2
a stone tool with a cutting edge; the stone is held in the hand and used for chopping wordnet
3
A hatchet or throwing axe.

From Middle English hand-ax, handax, handex, hond axe, from Old English handæx, from Proto-Germanic *handakwisī; equivalent to hand + axe.