"break-axe" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1832, The Juvenile Miscellany, page 207",
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          "ref": "1853, James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow, R. G. Barnwell, Edwin Bell, Debow's Review - Volume 14, page 100",
          "text": "The quiebra hacha is the celerated break-axe tree, noted for its durability.",
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          "ref": "1948, Joseph Earle Stevens, A Tale of two trees: Logwood & Quebracho, page 41",
          "text": "Quebracho wood derives its name from two Spanish words, \"quebrar\" to break and \"hache\" an axe, and this break-axe wood is one of the heaviest and hardest known, weighing some 85 pounds to the cubic foot, or over l/3 more than water, and \"playing ducks and drakes\" with axes, saws and other cutting tools.",
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