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Tool or weapon generally with wooden handle and edged metal head, in art associated with

• Saint Bartholomew, Apostle, probably by analogy for knife with which he was slain;
  
  

• Saint Boniface, who used it to cut down a tree dedicated to Thor;
  
  

• Saint Matthew, Apostle, by analogy for sword with which possibly he was killed;
  
  

• Saint Matthew of Beauvais, beheaded;
  
  

• Saint Olaf of Norway, who carried an ax in battle.