sax n 🔊

1. Clipping of saxophone.
2. Clipping of saxophonist.

sax v

1. (transitive) Followed by the dummy pronoun it: to play the saxophone.
2. (intransitive) To play the saxophone.

sax n

1. (weaponry, obsolete except historical) A short sword used by Germanic peoples, especially the Saxons, from about the 4th to 10th centuries; a type of dagger; a seax; also, a type of knife or machete used as a cutting tool by these peoples.
2. (by extension) A tool, similar to a hatchet, with an edge for cutting slate tiles for roofing, and a sharp point for making holes in the tiles for nails; a zax. [...]

☞ The Belgian musician Adolphe Sax, who invented the saxophone, was born on this day in 1814.

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A sax or seax (etymology 1, noun sense 1) dated to the Early Middle Ages (c.* 5th–10th centuries) recovered from the Thames in London, England, United Kingdom.[n 1]*

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