poleaxe BrE
poleax AmE

The wording of the 1933 act specifically outlaws the poleaxe.

The man fell like an ox beneath the poleaxe.

In addition, instruction on fighting with the poleaxe and other polearms was given.

'Down he went, just like a steer hit with a poleaxe.

Robb flung the poleaxe down in disgust, and turned wordless to the heart tree.

One leaned wearily on the haft of his poleaxe.

Canidius listened to the exchange feeling as if he had been hit by a poleaxe.

Your lion, that holds his poleaxe sitting on a close-stool, will be given to Ajax.

The poleaxe in that spelling, refers to an animal culling device of similar appearance.

A lion-headed mace, a poleaxe, and a crossbow had been hung on the walls.

He brandished his poleaxe out at arm's length, keeping two Insects at bay.

Using a poleaxe to kill small game destroys the game thoroughly, rendering it useless.

Not for nothing was he a butcher's son, wielding the sledded poleaxe and spitting in his palms.

If I had a poleaxe with a big long haft, Hodor could be my legs.

Her weapon is a poleaxe.

At this point, Boucicaut reached for his poleaxe but the lords intervened to end the duel.

Cortés holds his ground and reaches with the poleaxe, pulling the hooded man down from horseback.

Long Lew waited beside the block, but Robb took the poleaxe from his hand and ordered him to step aside.

Now the long blades, sweeping in six-foot arcs, chopped down the mailed warriors like cattle before the poleaxe.

"Ser Rodrik should teach me to use a poleaxe.

Wretched brutes there at the cattlemarket waiting for the poleaxe to split their skulls open.

He lev- eled his poleaxe directly at Sturm.

Such medieval polearms as the halberd and the poleaxe were variants of the basic battle-axe form.

The nickname "Bulax" probably represents the Old Norse term for "Poleaxe".

(Incidentally, "merlin" means from French into English "heavy axe", "large hammer", "poleaxe").

When another squire delivered him a poleax, he knew why.

Damon wants that to help him find the poleax.

His smile was a poleax, and my knees buckled.

The combination of effort and drink hit him like a poleax, and he drifted off into darkness.

Originally, they were all footmen, employing as principal weapon-of-choice an early variety of poleax.

I couldn't help noting your reaction when Darnay identified the poleax.

That poleax smash that had felled him would have split the skull of a lesser man.

Thus he missed the fact that the joy fill news of Bane's return caused Stephen to go rigid, as if struck by a poleax.

Ser Lucas struck with his poleax.

Grayson Davis's laughter became silent as Angus brought the end of a poleax swinging hard against his head.

Releasing the spear, Roran drew his hammer and twisted round as he blocked the second soldier's poleax with his shield.

This possibility, sometimes called the "Poleax Hypothesis" or the "Knockout Hypothesis," is now considered highly doubtful.

Blood poured from the crushed lips, and the man rolled over, struggling to rise, spitting out shards of crimsoned bone, shaking his head like a steer under the poleax.

As he parried, the Cimmerian saw that the man called Zal was advancing with a heavy poleax, while Red Turban was scrambling to his feet.

Then, as Zal raised the poleax, Conan darted in under the blow, and the next instant Zal was down, writhing in his own blood and entrails.

Marshall goes to Cooper's sister Sydney because he was chased out of his house by Gravedigger, who wants Marshall to walk the Morpheus Road, the way of life and death, with him to find the Poleax.

For this kind of fighting mode, the pike or the poleax or eke the long-hafted spear are near-useless weapons and noisy metal armor and clumsy jackboots could easily betray an ambush or cost a man his life.

-Ecclesiasticus 7:20 The flow of power ceased utterly as Dimitri crumpled like an ox felled with a poleax, arms trailing limply down Paulin's chest as he sagged to his knees and was dragged apart by ready hands.

He would throw the gun at him and poleaxe him with it before firing a shot.

'I've given him enough crystal to poleaxe a regiment.

There is nothing bland about Provence, and it can poleaxe people as it had poleaxed Susan.

OK, it's definitely a paedo you're dealing with - you knew that anyway so it doesn't have to poleaxe you.

He told the story of how Theophile Escargot had been the "ace in the hole" and of how Squire Myrkle had appeared at the window to poleaxe the Beddlington Ape and save the day.

He could not count on the other Rangers' wives to poleax their husbands' relatives.

Which was how I got to wondering about whether I could poleax him.

Fate will poleax us eventually anyhow, but I have my job in the meantime; I must use my mind, my hands.

It is a damnable dilemma which cleaves all the way back to the basic paradox involved in loving everyone, even the carnifex about to poleax you.

To get a real reaction, you pretty much had to poleax one of them with a fighting staff, and if he heard the staff whistling through the air, there was a good chance he'd catch it, take it away from you, and pound you into damp pulp with it.