The easiest cure is to knock the snow off with a regular tap with the axe shaft.

The hole entrance loomed dark and forbidding, but before either of the foxes could hesitate, Balefur had pushed them inside with his axe shaft.

Felix leapt up and grabbed hold of the axe shaft with his right hand, while holding the lantern in the other.

If the snow is soft the axe shaft should be planted firmly, close to the body.

The Nydam axe shaft (DR MS1995;341) is a wooden axe shaft discovered in Nydam Mose, South Jutland, Denmark that bears a runic inscription.

When the disguised Odysseus returns, she announces in her long interview with the disguised hero that whoever can string Odysseus's rigid bow and shoot an arrow through twelve axe shafts may have her hand.

Wulfgar went for the snapped axe shaft instead.

He scrambled behind the behemoth's head and wrapped his hands back around, lining up the point of his axe shaft with the creature's eye.

The length of the leash is adjusted so that when a climber hangs on a leash their hand remains at the tool's handle portion of the axe shaft.

This allows the climber to rest on the axe placement by applying minimal grip to the axe shaft.