Definition of "poleaxe" []

• An ax having both a blade and a hammer face; used to slaughter cattle (noun)
• A long-handled battle-ax, being a combination of ax, hammer and pike (noun)
• To fell someone with, or as if with, a poleaxe (verb)

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• "Wretched brutes there at the cattlemarket waiting for the poleaxe to split their skulls open."
• "All that safe, old fashioned boring will be a poleaxe beteen the eyes for them."
• "Canidius listened to the exchange feeling as if he had been hit by a poleaxe."