Palstave n. : A peculiar bronze adz, used in prehistoric Europe about the middle of the bronze age.

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Taxonomy
axe, free encyclopedia, stop bar, Schmidt, Burgess, search, loop, south-western, western Europe, technical sense, precise definitions, wooden handle, cast, flanges, blade, hafting, flanged, archaeologists.

Defination from the web:
... definitions differ, an axe is generally deemed to be a palstave if it is hafted by means of a forked wooden ... The archaeologist John Evans (1881, 72) popularized the term 'palstave' in English following Danish archaeologists who borrowed the term from Icelandic: paalstab. ...