axe-eye

Updated: July 3, 2026

"All right," replied the Woodpecker; "I'll do it without using a spring pole." So he whetted up his axe, tried the lower margin of the head, found it was a trifle out of the true that is, its under curve centred, not on the handle one span down, but half an inch out from the handle. A nail driven into the point of the axe-eye corrected this and the chiefs went forth to select a tree.

Ernest Thompson Seton - Two Little Savages : Being the adventures of two boys who lived as Indians and what they learned