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  • noun A close quarter combat weapon with the main fighting part of the weapon placed on the end of a long shaft, typically of wood.

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Examples

  • He wore a long leather duster and had a polearm of some kind slung over his shoulder and a pistol on his hip in a holster strapped on over his jeans.

    Crossed

  • He wore a long leather duster and had a polearm of some kind slung over his shoulder and a pistol on his hip in a holster strapped on over his jeans.

    Crossed

  • All that was left to Hamuul was to protect the three—no, he amended as another orc impaled Renferal with a polearm, pinning her to the earth—two night elf druids who still survived.

    The Shattering

  • All that was left to Hamuul was to protect the three—no, he amended as another orc impaled Renferal with a polearm, pinning her to the earth—two night elf druids who still survived.

    The Shattering

  • Homer considered the Thracians a nation of horsemen; Thucydides respected their daggers; Romans feared their polearm.

    The Spartacus War

  • Homer considered the Thracians a nation of horsemen; Thucydides respected their daggers; Romans feared their polearm.

    The Spartacus War

  •   Paul was lean and muscular, but he held no illusion of winning in unarmed gladiatorial combat: Rheena resembled a purple tank, her sides flapping over her legs like jowly sheets of steel, and that spike loomed on her nose like some fearsome medieval polearm.

    True Love and the Giraffe

  • Homer considered the Thracians a nation of horsemen; Thucydides respected their daggers; Romans feared their polearm.

    The Spartacus War

  • Homer considered the Thracians a nation of horsemen; Thucydides respected their daggers; Romans feared their polearm.

    The Spartacus War

  • I need a laser polearm viking wookie action figure NOW

    Cleaning out the My Pictures folder

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