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Meanings of poleaxe in English
Spanish
hacha de petos Usage of poleaxe in English
1
Down he went, just like a steer hit with a poleaxe.
2
And in this way I suppose you larned how to chop with your little poleaxe.
3
Ser Rodrik should teach me to use a poleaxe.
4
A man is knocked down by the unforeseen blow, like an ox by the poleaxe.
5
She looked like she'd been hit with a poleaxe.
6
If I had a poleaxe with a big long haft, Hodor could be my legs.
7
A German foot soldier's poleaxe used, at the end of the fourteenth century is shown in Fig.
8
He swung the poleaxe that he carried, and the Dutchman went down in blood with a cloven skull.
9
Keith, acting under previous instructions, promptly seized a helmet and poleaxe and made his way to the front.
10
Ser Lucas struck with his poleaxe.
11
It ought to be a poleaxe!
12
On Thursday evening, she will fight in the women's poleaxe event, against veteran combatants from Europe and the US.
13
In a bound her well-beloved was beside her, flinging away his bloody poleaxe, he opened wide his arms to enfold her.
14
A fierce struggle took place round the market cross, during which Sir John Byron was wounded in the face with a poleaxe.
15
Beside him the Beetle-kinden in the sentinel armour slammed his poleaxe down, buckling a shield and breaking the arm that carried it.
16
One of the defenders lay dead, with his head cloven to his shoulders with a poleaxe, but another had taken his place.
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