英语词汇“poleaxe”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

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....

After getting hit a few times with the poleaxe and half-moon blades, she'd taken out her opponents in under five minutes, the second in less than three.

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...

The missile hit him full on the knee, poleaxing him to the ground, and ricocheted into the river.
If a rugby player or boxer had spent almost 15 minutes unconscious after a taking a heavy tackle or being poleaxed by a crushing right hook, the minimum rest period would be a month.
Having poleaxed the thug, she sauntered off, leaving the detail of his detainment to two remarkably civic-minded passers-by.

1.1Cause great shock to: I was poleaxed by this revelation...

I was just stunned by how the gaps in his answers didn't seem like he was thinking, but that he was poleaxed.
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.

Origin

Middle 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.

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.... After getting hit a few times with the poleaxe and half-moon blades, she'd taken out her opponents in under five minutes, the second in less than three. 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... The missile hit him full on the knee, poleaxing him to the ground, and ricocheted into the river. If a rugby player or boxer had spent almost 15 minutes unconscious after a taking a heavy tackle or being poleaxed by a crushing right hook, the minimum rest period would be a month. Having poleaxed the thug, she sauntered off, leaving the detail of his detainment to two remarkably civic-minded passers-by. 1.1Cause great shock to: I was poleaxed by this revelation... I was just stunned by how the gaps in his answers didn't seem like he was thinking, but that he was poleaxed. 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. Origin Middle 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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