By the time brain size increase stopped, the hand ax and similar tools were still in use around the world.

What early men first developed the hand ax, the knife, the spear, the bow and arrow is unknown to us.

His father preferred the hand ax but had trained him with daggers as well.

There he took out a large hand ax and banged three times upon it with the haft.

She found one shaped not unlike a hand ax, traditional tool of mankind.

Before he died, he gave me a book and what he called a hand ax.

A farmer lent me his hand ax, and I did the detail work with an- other man's pocket knife.

I saw in the half gloom the hand ax which had struck him between neck and shoulder, biting out his life.

He bore a small hand ax in both fists.

Amanda was near the prow of the boat, grasping a small hand ax.