An ax having a hammer face opposite the blade, used to slaughter cattle.
A medieval battle-ax consisting of a long shaft ending in an ax or a combination of an ax, hammer, and pick.
transitive verbpole·axed, pole·ax·ing, pole·ax·es
To strike or fell with or as if with a poleax: “When a gang of doves circled above the flowing water and swooped in to feed, he poleaxed the leader with a clean head shot”(William Hoffman).