单词 | poleaxe |
释义 | poleaxe/ˈpəʊlaks![]() (US also poleax) noun 1 another term for battleaxe (sense 1).Both demons wore heavy, dark armour, covered in spikes, and brandished long poleaxes....
1.1A short-handled axe with a spike at the back, formerly used in naval warfare for boarding, resisting boarders, and cutting ropes. 1.2A butcher’s axe with a hammer head at the back, used to slaughter animals. verb [with object] 1Hit, kill, or knock down with or as if with a poleaxe: the tigress had fallen to my bullet as if poleaxed...
1.1Cause great shock to: I was poleaxed by this revelation...
OriginMiddle English: related to Middle Dutch pol(l)aex, Middle Low German pol(l)exe (see poll, axe). The change in the first syllable was due to association with pole1; the first element poll- may have referred to a special head of the axe or to the head of an enemy. |
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