El Matarife had picked up a great poleaxe that he slung on his shoulder.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sharpe's Honour]

All that safe, old fashioned boring will be a poleaxe beteen the eyes for them.    From Wordnik.com.  [What Happens When Socialism Doesn't Come?] Reference

His poleaxe was stuck into the ground at the edge of the circle made by his men.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sharpe's Honour]

The man himself fell like an ox before the poleaxe, but the rifle flew into two pieces.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons Wesel, Sennelager, Klingelputz, Ruhleben] Reference

Strapped on his back, next to a musket, was a great poleaxe, the weapon of a slaughterman.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sharpe's Honour]

The blade of a poleaxe crashed down, splintering the table, and slicing off the heels of Lynch's boots.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dragons Of Summer Flame]

It was not killed with the traditional sword, nor with the small knife plunged between its vertebrae, but by a poleaxe.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sharpe's Honour]

Himself among the foremost he grasps a poleaxe, bursts through the hard doorway, and wrenches the brazen-plated doors from the hinge; and now he hath cut out a plank from the solid oak and pierced a vast gaping hole.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Aeneid of Virgil] Reference

And in this way I suppose you larned how to chop with your little poleaxe.    From Wordnik.com.  [Guy Rivers: A Tale of Georgia] Reference

Wretched brutes there at the cattlemarket waiting for the poleaxe to split their skulls open.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ulysses] Reference

He swung the poleaxe that he carried, and the Dutchman went down in blood with a cloven skull.    From Wordnik.com.  [Captain Blood] Reference

Not for nothing was he a butcher's son, wielding the sledded poleaxe and spitting in his palms.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ulysses] Reference

Before Dante can kill the townsfolk, he has to fend off sword wielding attackers with a poleaxe.    From Wordnik.com.  [IGN PS3] Reference

Someone with a poleaxe butchering someone 100 times with a counter did not come off as funny to me.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anime Nano!]

"Well, it hasn't," said Barker; "and if you have any lingering doubts, lend me a poleaxe, and I'll show you.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Napoleon of Notting Hill] Reference

"Well, that lid would turn a poleaxe, sure; that's why I brought it back -- it's out on the fire escape now.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Definite Object A Romance of New York] Reference

Keith, acting under previous instructions, promptly seized a helmet and poleaxe and made his way to the front.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Gray Dawn] Reference

'If I ever heard he'd given away any one in the lot I'd have his life, if I had to poleaxe him in George Street.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robbery under Arms; a story of life and adventure in the bush and in the Australian goldfields] Reference

In a bound her well-beloved was beside her, flinging away his bloody poleaxe, he opened wide his arms to enfold her.    From Wordnik.com.  [Captain Blood] Reference

Like leaf fall and mellow fruitfulness, no autumn would be complete without the threat of a postal strike to poleaxe the Christmas mail.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telegraph.co.uk: news business sport the Daily Telegraph newspaper Sunday Telegraph] Reference

I say, I got up like a devil, and I tore a poleaxe out of a man's hand and struck where I saw the scarlet of Wayne's fellows, struck again and again.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Napoleon of Notting Hill] Reference

The general Mode of Slaughtering Oxen in this country is by striking them a smart blow with a hammer or poleaxe on the head, a little above the eyes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of Household Management] Reference

As reckless as his rush-of-blood moment at Love Street inNovember when he was lucky to escape a red card for storming out of his box to poleaxe St Mirren striker Craig Dargo.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sunday Mail - Home] Reference

“I found the former cuirassier stretched out at full length on the carpet, his face covered with blood, and as lifeless as if he had received a blow on the head from a poleaxe.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Siege of Berlin] Reference

Before the fair faint dawn made rosy the eastern sky over the houses, you might have heard on every side the heavy thud of the poleaxe striking down the patient heifer on her knees, -- the heifer whose eyes are like the eyes of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dreams and Dream Stories] Reference

Sneijder and Javier Zanetti combined to poleaxe Lionel Messi.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference

Not for nothing was he a butcher’s son, wielding the sledded poleaxe and spitting in his palms.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ulysses] Reference

I ever heard he’d given away any one in the lot I’d have his life, if I had to poleaxe him in George Street.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robbery Under Arms] Reference

"like she'd been hit with a poleaxe" and sends the Clintons themselves "reeling like a pair of Vegas drunks the morning after".    From Wordnik.com.  [New Statesman] Reference

With a poleaxe in her hand.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Bundle of Ballads] Reference

With a poleaxe in his hand.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Bundle of Ballads] Reference

Why did the Recording Academy poleaxe Polka?.    From Wordnik.com.  [NotionsCapital] Reference

A poleaxe.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jess] Reference

"It ought to be a poleaxe!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Raffles, Further Adventures of the Amateur Cracksman] Reference