poleaxe
variant of poleax.
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How to use poleaxe in a sentence
Men with lanterns and poleaxes, as if going to the shambles to kill oxen, hurried along the streets.
The White Plumes of Navarre | Samuel Rutherford CrockettHalf of them carried battle-axes or poleaxes, and they plied them for their lives.
With the Black Prince | William Osborn StoddardTheir weapons were bows and arrows, large swords, poleaxes, and daggers for close fight.
Scott's Lady of the Lake | Walter ScottAt midnight the hammering of the subterranean poleaxes let the Sultan know that his rescuing body of moles were coming!
We were six hundred, and marched with those damned poleaxes of Auberon's—the only weapons we've got.
The Napoleon of Notting Hill | Gilbert K. Chesterton
British Dictionary definitions for poleaxe
US poleax
/ (ˈpəʊlˌæks) /
another term for battle-axe (def. 1)
a former naval weapon with an axe blade on one side of the handle and a spike on the other
an axe used by butchers to slaughter animals
(tr) to hit or fell with or as if with a poleaxe
Origin of poleaxe
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