battle-axe
‘a heavy broad-headed axe formerly used as a weapon’
Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:
battle + axe < O.E. æces (later æx) ‘axe, pickaxe, hatchet’ < Proto-G. akusjo < aks < agw(e)si < Tamil akku
battle-axe
English words derived from akku connoting 'sharpness'