French: hache-marteauEnglish translation: hammer axe 
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Archaeology | | French term or phrase: hache-marteau | | An ancient Roman tool. |
| | Clarification request(s) and responseVictoria Barkoff (asker): 7:19pm Mar 2, 2005: Description - This tool has a short axe-type blade on one side and a short, square hammerhead on the other. It was used for construction and carpentry.
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| | See my previous answer! | Explanation:
I suspect the distinction between "hache boucharde" and "hache marteau" is somewhat fine!
Maybe you could one an ax(e)hammer and the other a hammer-axe (see http://www.paleodirect.com/cbi-016.htm )
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Note added at 22 mins (2005-03-02 16:13:05 GMT)
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Note that the above site suggests that the tool/weapon in question had equally important military and domestic applications, and that \"war hammers ... usually had a long, sharp point on the back and a blunt pean (hache-marteau?), or a set of claws (hache-boucharde?) in front [the picture associated with this text shows a spike and a \"hammer\" head with 4 points (cf. bush hammer)], in front. In some cases it has a narrow cutting edge and is difficult to classify, being as much axe as hammer\"
[A Glossary of the Construction, Decoration and Use of Arms and Armor in all countries and in all times, together with some closely related subjects, George Cameron Stone]
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Note added at 7 hrs 42 mins (2005-03-02 23:32:29 GMT)
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Given the Roman \"hammer axe\" and \"adze axe\" shown on http://www.edgarlowen.com/a45ar.html, the best I can think of is \"hammer axe\". |
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Bourth
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8 mins confidence:   |
| ax-hammer
Explanation:
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| | Note from asker to answerer| This was very close; but the more common English term seems to be the (inverted) "Hammer axe", which puts the emphasis on the axe. |
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Comment: This was very close; but the more common English term seems to be the (inverted) "Hammer axe", which puts the emphasis on the axe. |
14 mins confidence: |
| see site
Explanation:
this site might help you, especially if you have illustrations.
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
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16 mins confidence: |
| See my previous answer!
Explanation:
I suspect the distinction between "hache boucharde" and "hache marteau" is somewhat fine!
Maybe you could one an ax(e)hammer and the other a hammer-axe (see http://www.paleodirect.com/cbi-016.htm )
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Note added at 22 mins (2005-03-02 16:13:05 GMT)
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Note that the above site suggests that the tool/weapon in question had equally important military and domestic applications, and that \"war hammers ... usually had a long, sharp point on the back and a blunt pean (hache-marteau?), or a set of claws (hache-boucharde?) in front [the picture associated with this text shows a spike and a \"hammer\" head with 4 points (cf. bush hammer)], in front. In some cases it has a narrow cutting edge and is difficult to classify, being as much axe as hammer\"
[A Glossary of the Construction, Decoration and Use of Arms and Armor in all countries and in all times, together with some closely related subjects, George Cameron Stone]
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Note added at 7 hrs 42 mins (2005-03-02 23:32:29 GMT)
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Given the Roman \"hammer axe\" and \"adze axe\" shown on http://www.edgarlowen.com/a45ar.html, the best I can think of is \"hammer axe\".
| Bourth
France
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