sideax (sidaks)

An ax so made as to guard the hand which holds it from the danger of striking the wood which is to be hewed, as by having the bevel of the head all one side, or by having a bend in the handle, or in both ways: the broadax is usually of this character. side-bar (sīd'bär), n. 1. In carriages: ( a ) A longitudinal side-piece, especially in a military traveling forge or a battery-wagon. ( b ) One of two elastic wooden bars placed one on each side of the body of some forms of light wagon or buggy to connect it with the gearing and to serve both as a support and as a spring. The device gives the vehicle a motion sidewise in place of the pitching motion of a buggy with ordinary springs. It is of American origin, and gives name to a system of carriage-suspension known as the side - bar suspension. Light vehicles of the side - bar description. Sci. Amer., N. S., LVIII. 91. 2. In saddlery , one of two plates which unite the pommel and cantle of a saddle. E. H. Knight.-3. In the Scottish Court of Se ion, the name given to the bar in the outer parlia- IMG:content-1012.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-1013.png:[blocks in formation]