[
UK
/pˈəʊleɪks/
]
NOUN
- an ax used to slaughter cattle; has a hammer opposite the blade
- a battle ax used in the Middle Ages; a long handled ax and a pick
VERB
- fell with or as if with a poleax
How To Use poleaxe In A Sentence
- Whether it made contact or not, Cuthbertson collapsed, apparently poleaxed.
- I was poleaxed when I heard I'd passed the exam.
- His poleaxe was stuck into the ground at the edge of the circle made by his men. Sharpe's Honour
- Wretched brutes there at the cattlemarket waiting for the poleaxe to split their skulls open. November « 2008 « Sentence first
- I was just stunned by how the gaps in his answers didn't seem like he was thinking, but that he was poleaxed.
- Parkinson's super 40-yard angled pass split the Ashton defence and it was all keeper Trueman could do to poleaxe Fitzgerald as he homed in on goal.
- In just the second game of his comeback from a nine-week lay-off with a torn cruciate ligament, the Great Britain prop was poleaxed in the build-up to the final try of the game and had to be helped from the field after refusing a stretcher.
- He would throw the gun at him and poleaxe him with it before firing a shot. The Drawing of the Three
- In the fight with Martin, Liston was poleaxed by a thunderous right hand and was counted out.
- Colonel Anderson looked like he'd been poleaxed when he heard you laugh for the first time, when you slipped and I barely caught you that time.
