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pole-axe

n. (alternative spelling of poleaxe English)

Usage examples of "pole-axe".

Tartar down, and his horse fallen upon him, away he runs to him, and seizing upon an ugly weapon he had by his side, something like a pole-axe, he wrenched it from him, and made shift to knock his Tartarian brains out with it.