Bible dictionaries
Battleaxe
What Bible dictionaries say about “Battleaxe”, one article after the other.
Easton’s Bible Dictionary & Webster’s 1828 Dictionary
Battleaxe - (Easton's Bible Dictionary)
A mallet or heavy war-club. Applied metaphorically (Jer. 51:20) to Cyrus, God's instrument in destroying Babylon.
Matthew George Easton, Easton’s Bible Dictionary; Noah Webster, American Dictionary of the English Language (1828)
The article in Easton + Webster 1828Smith’s Bible Dictionary
(Jeremiah 51:20) [MAUL]
William Smith; revised by F. N. Peloubet and M. A. Peloubet; CrossWire SWORD module Smith 1.3
The article in Smith