A battle ax used in the Middle Ages

Usage examples of poleaxe.

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A wild shriek tore from the lips of the nearest, and before the rider could throw down his useless lance, the billman swung his great poleaxe at the man.

A Codesh brawler caught the force of its fist and flew in a great arc that ended on the other side of the wall, leaving her poleaxe behind.

Mahtra and Zvain were behind him, then unslung his staff as Codesh brawlers came out of the haze, poleaxes raised and swinging.

Zach was evidently so poleaxed by the concept of an enforced legal drinking age that his silver tongue had deserted him.

On the other side of the spectrum were those who suffered relatively minor wounds and went down as if they had been poleaxed, then screamed unceasingly until they reached the hospital and were given enough drugs to quiet them.

Margot smiled in return, a rather weak effort, then turned back to Faith with a poleaxed expression on her face.

Valda had heard it named the Battle of Jeramel, but only by some of the bare handful of Amadician nobles who escaped, dazed as poleaxed steers yet still trying mechanically to put the best face on events.

Excruciating pain in my leg felled me like a poleaxed beast as I landed and lost my footing.

Now the desert woman was not much of a swordswoman, true, and she talked too much for Oman's taste, but apparently the throwing of rocks could be numbered among her skills: the large stone smacked into the head of one of the pikemen, felling him like a poleaxed pig.

They examined Roran’s group with hard eyes, lingering on their ragged clothes, then lowered their poleaxes and barred the entrance.

The dismounted Hostigi were fighting with halberds and poleaxes picked up from the battlefield.

Had the ordered troops been prepared and expecting the cavalry, their langues de boeuf and poleaxes could have wrought gory havoc on Foster's squadron, but struck by surprise at flank and rear, they panicked and broke.

Hatchets dangled from their belts, curved poleaxes glowed in the reddening light.

At Jack Rhinehart’s apartment, before the poleaxing arrival of Neela Mahendra had changed the subject, he had been attempting, while concealing the depth of his perturbation, to confess to Rhinehart something of his fear about the terrorist anger that kept taking him hostage.