Definitions
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- noun an
ax having both ablade and ahammer face; used toslaughter cattle - noun a long-handled
battle-ax , being acombination ofax ,hammer andpike - verb transitive to
fell someone with, or as if with, a poleaxe
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- verb fell with or as if with a poleax
- noun an ax used to slaughter cattle; has a hammer opposite the blade
- noun a battle ax used in the Middle Ages; a long handled ax and a pick
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Examples
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Wretched brutes there at the cattlemarket waiting for the poleaxe to split their skulls open.
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Wretched brutes there at the cattlemarket waiting for the poleaxe to split their skulls open.
Meh 2008
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All that safe, old fashioned boring will be a poleaxe beteen the eyes for them.
What Happens When Socialism Doesn't Come? Rogers 2008
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Canidius listened to the exchange feeling as if he had been hit by a poleaxe.
Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007
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Canidius listened to the exchange feeling as if he had been hit by a poleaxe.
Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007
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Wretched brutes there at the cattlemarket waiting for the poleaxe to split their skulls open.
Ulysses 2003
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Shooting me glares which would poleaxe a lesser man.
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The blade of a poleaxe crashed down, splintering the table, and slicing off the heels of Lynch's boots.
Dragons Of Summer Flame Weis, Margaret 1995
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He would throw the gun at him and poleaxe him with it before firing a shot.
The Drawing of the Three King, Stephen, 1947- 1987
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His poleaxe was stuck into the ground at the edge of the circle made by his men.
Sharpe's Honour Cornwell, Bernard 1985
minerva commented on the word poleaxe
His clenched fist offered to his forehead on your leaving him in just displeasure; I wish it had been a poleaxe, and in the hand of his worst enemy.
Anna Howe to Clarissa Harlowe, Clarissa by Samuel Richardson
December 11, 2007