to fell trees (for timber)

(cf Book of Songs) How to fashion an ax handle? You need an ax; fig. to follow a principle; fig. to act as matchmaker

a logging area

lumberjack; logger

pace; (measured) step; march

to hew; to cut down

to suppress by armed force; to send a punitive expedition against; to crusade against

the Northern Expedition, the Nationalists' campaign of 1926-1928 under Chiang Kai-shek, against the rule of local warlords

to console the people by punishing the tyrants (abbr. for 弔民伐罪|吊民伐罪[diao4 min2 fa2 zui4])