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Explanation: Do you have more information on the shape of this tool and what it was used for?
My first instinct is to think that it might be a "boucharde" or "bush hammer": "A hand-hld machine (usually air-driven), or a mason's hammer, with rows of raised, tooth-like pyramids on its face [like a steak-tenderizing hammer!], used for hacking or scabbling the surface of fairly hard materials such as stone or concrete"
[Scott/Penguin Dict. of Building]
However the "hache" part suggests it is a double-headed tool, possibly with a "bush hammer" side and an axe-type blade on the other side. Note the shape of a "bricklayer's hammer", also called a "brick axe" or "axhammer: on the back of the hammer face is a sharp prong (not a wood axe blade however, but like a pick-axe) used for breaking and dressing bricks.
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This tool has an axe-type blade on one side and a head with 4 points on the other.
It was used for stonecutting.
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13 mins confidence:
see site
Explanation: this site might help you, especially if you have illustrations. Good luck!
LacusCurtius • Iron Objects in Roman Britain (John Ward, 1911)
... H, with a spike behind, is certainly a butcher's pole-axe. ... The small size of the
Roman and the prehistoric sickles is due to the ancient custom of ...
penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/ Places/Europe/Great_Britain/_Periods/Roman/_Texts/WARREB/11*.html
SanC France Local time: 18:03 Native speaker of: French
Explanation: ... Each prisoner on the chain gang is usually given a bush axe or some other weapon ...
It sounds like something from the days of the Romans and the reign of Romanov. ... www.prisonactivist.org/pipermail/ prisonact-list/1996-June/000481.html - 9k
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according to the description it could be too \"bush hammer\" (see Termium description:
omaine(s)
– Construction Tools
– Concrete Facilities and Equipment
Domaine(s)
– Outils (Construction)
– Outillage et installations (Bétonnage)
Domaine(s)
– Herramientas (Construcción)
– Equipo e instalaciones para el
hormigonado
bush hammer Source CORRECT,
NORMALISÉ
DEF – A compressed-air or electric
hammer having a serrated face and
containing many pyramid-shaped
points that is used to dress a
concrete or stone surface. Source
OBS – bush hammer: term
standardized by ISO. Source
DEF – Marteau de tailleur de pierre,
à deux têtes couvertes de pointes
pyramidales dont la finesse est
proportionnée à la finesse du travail.
Francis MARC Local time: 19:03 Native speaker of: French PRO pts in category: 24
Grading comment
Thanks for the suggestion, but
from the online illustrations, a bush axe appears to be a single-headed axe.
The asker has declined this answer Comment: Thanks for the suggestion, but
from the online illustrations, a bush axe appears to be a single-headed axe.
11 mins confidence:
More details?
Explanation: Do you have more information on the shape of this tool and what it was used for?
My first instinct is to think that it might be a "boucharde" or "bush hammer": "A hand-hld machine (usually air-driven), or a mason's hammer, with rows of raised, tooth-like pyramids on its face [like a steak-tenderizing hammer!], used for hacking or scabbling the surface of fairly hard materials such as stone or concrete"
[Scott/Penguin Dict. of Building]
However the "hache" part suggests it is a double-headed tool, possibly with a "bush hammer" side and an axe-type blade on the other side. Note the shape of a "bricklayer's hammer", also called a "brick axe" or "axhammer: on the back of the hammer face is a sharp prong (not a wood axe blade however, but like a pick-axe) used for breaking and dressing bricks.
-------------------------------------------------- Note added at 7 hrs 42 mins (2005-03-02 23:31:43 GMT) --------------------------------------------------
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