[f. AX sb.1] To shape or trim with an ax.
1677. Moxon, Mech. Exerc. (1703), 246. To Ax the Brick off, with an Ax that is exactly streight on the edge.
1823. P. Nicholson, Pract. Build., 389. The … stretchers in returns, which are not axed, are dressed upon the rubbing-stone.
