On one side was emergency gear: fire axes, a pike, gaff and spade, as if fire could be fought like foreign troops.

Find the fire axes, chop wood from the catwalks, and build pyres around the candles.

His first impulse was to laugh, but his own boys were carrying fire axes and baseball bats themselves, and possibly ... Yeah, I see the point, he thought.

Each vessel's certificate stated how many lifeboats, fire axes, and similar items were supposed to be carried.

They use bats, pick handles, meat cleavers, fire axes, shovels and other objects to crack away the dangerous tons of white weight.

Experienced sailors say pirates consider fire axes and hoses to be fair defensive weapons, unlike guns, for which they often punish ship crews.

J.F.Bone to dodge things like falling fire axes and flower pots.

They hacked at it with fire axes from a case on the wall.

Using rifle butts and fire axes, the remaining ten easily busted down the building's main door.

From above came shouts and the crashing of fire axes against doors, and the thump of booted running feet.