poleaxe

Definitions

Examples

• The quartos have 'pollax,' the two earliest folios read 'Pollax,' the third 'Polax,' the fourth 'Poleaxe.'

• And in this way I suppose you larned how to chop with your little poleaxe.

• The Constable wore gilt armour and a plumed helmet, and bore a poleaxe in his hands.

• Wretched brutes there at the cattlemarket waiting for the poleaxe to split their skulls open.

• What th' butcher done I dinnaw; but annyhow they accused him iv wantin' to poleaxe th' governmint; an' they thrun him into a cell.