Axholme, Isle of, a tract of land in NW. Lincolnshire, 17 m. long and 5 m. broad; once a forest, then a marsh; drained in 1632, and now fertile, producing hemp, flax, rape, &c.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Axel * Axim