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pollax

pollax is the obsolete form of poleaxe.

Meaning of poleaxe

Noun

poleaxe (plural poleaxes)

  1. An ax having both a blade and a hammer face; used to slaughter cattle.
  2. (historical) A long-handled battle axe, being a combination of ax, hammer and pike.

See all 5 meanings of poleaxe

Forms of pollax

pluralpollaxes

Questions about pollax

What is pollax the obsolete form of?
Pollax is the obsolete form of poleaxe.

Words near pollax in the dictionary

  1. Pollard script
  2. Pollard's rho algorithm
  3. pollarded
  4. pollarding
  5. pollards
  6. pollax
  7. pollaxe
  8. pollaxes
  9. pollbook
  10. pollbooks
  11. Polle syndrome

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pollax (page history and authors); poleaxe (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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