A tool or weapon, possibly a variant of a pickax or a specialized axe for breaking materials like stone or ice.
From 'break' (Old English 'brecan') plus 'ax' or 'axe' (Old English 'æx'). A compound term describing a tool designed for breaking hard substances.
Old tool names like 'breakax' tell us what problems people needed to solve—if someone invented a 'breakax', that culture had serious breaking work to do regularly.
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