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pollaxe

pollaxe is the alternative 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 pollaxe

pluralpollaxes

Questions about pollaxe

What is pollaxe the alternative form of?
Pollaxe is the alternative form of poleaxe.

Words near pollaxe in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pollaxe (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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