hache
French → English
(tool) Axe: a tool with a heavy metal head and a handle, used for chopping wood
La hache primitive de silex permettait à l’homme néolithique de couper des branches.
(English) The primitive flint axe allowed Neolithic man to cut branches.
Le moujik laissa tomber sa hache dans la rivière et se mit à pleurer de chagrin.
(English) The muzhik (peasant) dropped his axe into the river and began to cry with sorrow.
(figurative/idiom) Expertise or domain: a specific field where one excels or feels deeply attached
Le judo, c'est ma hache ! Je m'y consacre totalement depuis mon enfance.
(English) Judo is my domain (expertise)! I have dedicated myself to it since childhood.
Il souhaite poursuivre son travail car la foresterie urbaine est véritablement sa hache.
(English) He wants to continue his work because urban forestry is truly his specialty (axe).
(history/execution) Executioner's axe: the instrument once used for beheading condemned prisoners
L'échafaud attendait le condamné qui allait périr sous le coup de la hache.
(English) The scaffold awaited the condemned man who was going to perish under the blow of the axe.
Je regardais la hache briller dans la nuit avant que le bourreau ne s'approche.
(English) I watched the axe shine in the night before the executioner approached.
Entry ID: fr:en:hache · Source: refined · Type: vocabulary