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Poleax

verb
1.
Fell with or as if with a poleax.  Synonym: poleaxe.





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"Poleax" Quotes from Famous Books



... rummaged in the debris of the long-deserted barn. He picked up a hoe, and discarded it as too light. An old plowshare was too unhandy. He considered a grate-bar from a heating furnace, and then he found the poleax, lying among a pile of wormeaten boards. Its handle had been shortened, at some time, to about twelve inches, converting it into a heavy hatchet. He weighed it, and tried it on a block of wood, and then, ...
— Police Operation • H. Beam Piper


Words linked to "Poleax" :   cut down, fell, ax, axe, poleaxe, battle-ax, drop, strike down, battle-axe


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