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Poleax   Listen
verb
poleax, poleaxe  v. t.  
1.
To fell with or as if with a poleax; often used figuratively; as, the entire department was poleaxed after the takeover.
2.
Stunned; astonished;; as, we couldn't speak, poleaxed by the sight in fronnt fo us.






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"Poleax" Quotes from Famous Books



... Civil Wars. On January 1st, 1642, in the dead of night, Sir John Byron's regiment had a sharp encounter with two hundred dragoons of the Parliamentary forces. A fierce struggle took place round the market cross, during which Sir John Byron was wounded in the face with a poleaxe. Cromwell's soldiers, however, were routed and ...
— A Cotswold Village • J. Arthur Gibbs

... lodging, joining upon the fields and wood, even like a cony clapper, full of starting-holes. [I was] a good space knocking at the abbot's door; nec vox nec sensus apparuit, saving the abbot's little dog that within his door fast locked bayed and barked. I found a short poleaxe standing behind the door, and with it I dashed the abbot's door in pieces, ictu oculi, and set one of my men to keep that door; and about the house I go, with that poleaxe in my hand, ne forte, for the abbot is a dangerous desperate knave, and a hardy. But for a conclusion, ...
— History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Death of Elizabeth. Vol. II. • James Anthony Froude



Words linked to "Poleax" :   strike down, ax, battle-axe, battle-ax



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