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					Originally Posted by Ian  Have not found that listing but still looking. The sharpened blunt end might suggest a few uses--gouging or digging, for example. | 
	
    Thanks. 
   The best guess so far has been an asparagus cutter, they tend to be long & only sharpened at the end but don't have a hatchet/ cleaver, it was suggested this might have been to cut the ends off bundled bunches.       But that's purely a guess with no other example.