A battle ax used in the Middle Ages; a long handled ax and a pick.
1 He was coming two steps at a time, holding a poleax at port arms.
2 She shivered like an animal as it is hit in the head with a poleax .
3 Some barbarian chief with a poleax and war paint?
4 He was even bigger than Sir Howard, and he brandished his poleax like a switch.
5 But if they make it thick enough to stop a poleax , it'll make you top-heavy, I think.
6 But the man, dropping his poleax , was dancing back out of reach, flicking blood from his wounded hand.
7 Standing beside the jester was Deler, holding the torch in one hand and a double-edged poleax in the other.
8 Deler decided that he wanted a bit of amusement, too, and his poleax started singing in unison with the gnome's battle-mattock.
9 The dwarf glowered and stroked the blade of his enormous poleax ; the gnome puffed away on his pipe, exhausting his final reserves of tobacco.
10 With no armor to protect him he went down as if poleaxed .
11 Soldiers at the barricade pushed them back with spears, poleaxes and lances.
12 Hatchets dangled from their belts, curved poleaxes glowed in the reddening light.
13 The whaleboat crashed on to the workbench, its bow poleaxing the man.
14 A shuffling, yelling wall of men armed with spears and poleaxes fought something.
15 The woman stopped as if poleaxed , her face cratering into a comical pout.
16 Deke was looking at her with a mildly poleaxed expression.
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