A battle ax used in the Middle Ages; a long handled ax and a pick.
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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