But the new defense budget doesn't axe a single major weapons system.

A new manager will often swing the axe to clear a path.

Hockey also indicated that environmental agencies would be facing the budget axe.

Here's a look at some possible targets and those facing the axe.

And besides, there's much to be said for a good sharp axe.

You were seen in the lugger with an axe in your hands.

She says however fearsome it might look, the axe is not sharp.

The spear he held carried a blade as large as an axe.

Guapo was in front of the house busy in new-hafting his axe.

The woods of Russia are trembling under the blows of the axe.

The axe, too, in some indistinct way felt good in his hand.

Most of the men wore in their belts a chopping-knife and axe.

In an instant Ivan was free, and an axe in his hand.

For now the axe is laid to the root of the trees.

Several paper plants had to close and thousands of jobs were axed.

Question of the Week: Is it time for JobBridge to be axed?