AXES

X and Y, maybe

• Baselines on a graph

• Battle and pole

• Battle weapons

• Bounces

• Cancels

• Cancels suddenly

• Cans

• Certain lines

• Chop sticks?

• Choppers

• Choppers' choppers

• Chopping tools

• Chops

• Chops down

• Chops down the cherry tree

• Chops off

• Chops wood

• Climber's cutters

• Coordinate-system pair

• Cuts down

• Cuts drastically

• Cuts from the staff

• Cuts from the team

• Cuts off

• Cuts ruthlessly

• Cutting tools

• Discharges, in slang

• Dismisses

• Dismisses unceremoniously

• Downsizes

• Dumps

• Dungeons & Dragons weapons

• Eighty-sixes

• Emulates Steinbrenner?

• Fellers

• Fellers' needs

• Felling tools

• Fells a tree, say

• Fells trees

• Fir fellers

• Fire department tools

• Fire truck gear

• Fire truck tools

• Firefighters' tools

• Firefighting equipment

• Firefighting tools

• Firehouse supplies

• Fires

• Fires abruptly

• Fires brutally

• Fires, jobwise

• Forest choppers

• Forest fellers

• Forest hackers

• Forest swingers

• Forestry tools

• Furloughs

• Geometric lines

• Geometric reference lines

• Gets rid of

• Gives a pink slip to

• Gives the boot

• Gives the boot to

• Gives the gate

• Gives the heave-ho

• Gives the heave-ho to

• Gives walking papers to

• Good fellers

• Graph components

• Graph features

• Graph lines

• Graph references

• Graph's edges, often

• Graphing guidelines

• Grind needs?

• Guitars, slangily

• Guitars, to rockers

• Hackers

• Hatchet cousins

• Hatchets

• Hewing tools

• Horror flick props

• Horror movie weapons

• Includes among the layoffs

• Intersecting number lines

• Jimi Hendrix's collection

• Kicks off the staff

• Kindling choppers

• Leagues of nations

• Lets go

• Lines in geometry

• Lines in geometry class

• Lines on a graph

• Lines on planes

• Lines through the origin

• Loggers' loppers

• Logging camp tools

• Lumber camp implements

• Lumber camp stack

• Lumber camp tools

• Lumbering implements

• Lumberjack's tools

• Lumberjacking tools

• Lumberjacks' choppers

• Musical instruments, in slang

• Origin crossers

• Orthogonal lines

• Parts of a Cartesian coordinate system

• Paul Bunyan's equipment

• Perpendicular lines

• Pink-slips

• Plot lines

• Props in some The Wizard of Oz costumes

• Quadrant borders

• Quadrant separators

• Rail-splitting tools

• Removes from the prime-time lineup

• Rotation points

• Sacks

• Sends packing

• Stone Age tools

• Terminates

• They bring things down

• They have heads and handles

• They intersect at the origin

• They may go to blazes

• They're turned on

• Things to grind

• Timberland tools

• Tomahawks

• Tomahawks, e.g.

• Tools for Paul Bunyan

• Tools on a fire truck

• Tools on fire trucks

• Tree fellers

• Tree-chopping tools

• Truncates a tree

• Turning points

• Weapons at Crecy

• What kings of diamonds hold

• What the abscissa and ordinate are measured from

• Wood choppers

• Wood choppers' needs

• Woodcutters' tools

• Woodsman's stock

• Woodsmen's tools

• X and Y

• X and Y on a graph

• x and y, e.g.

• X and Y, in geometry

• X and Y, in math

• x and y, often

• x and y, on a graph

• x and y, perhaps

• X, Y and Z

• x, y and z, in math