Definitions for poleaxe

poleaxe pole·axe

Spelling: [pohl-aks]
IPA: /ˈpoʊlˌæks/

Poleaxe is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 107 anagrams from letters in poleaxe (aeelopx).

Definitions for poleaxe

noun

  1. poleax.

Examples for poleaxe

One of the defenders lay dead, with his head cloven to his shoulders with a poleaxe, but another had taken his place.

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

A fierce struggle took place round the market cross, during which Sir John Byron was wounded in the face with a poleaxe.

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

A man is knocked down by the unforeseen blow, like an ox by the poleaxe.

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

He swung the poleaxe that he carried, and the Dutchman went down in blood with a cloven skull.

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

Well, that lid would turn a poleaxe, sure; that's why I brought it back—it's out on the fire escape now.

On swept the terrible blows of the poleaxe, and Guy had no man to meet but was nearly a head shorter than himself.

Word Value for poleaxe
Scrable

16

Words with friends

18

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