Poleaxe

  

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Poleaxe

Definition: Poleaxe

Poleaxe

Noun

1. An ax used to slaughter cattle; has a hammer opposite the blade.

2. A battle ax used in the Middle Ages; a long handled ax and a pick.

Verb

1. Fell with or as if with a poleax.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "poleaxe" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1594. (references)


Synonym: Poleaxe

Synonym: poleax (v). (additional references)

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Poleaxe

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

poleaxe

3
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Modern Translation: Poleaxe

Language Translations for "poleaxe"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Arabic 

  

‏فأس الحرب (battle axe, poleax, tomahawk), ‏فأس, ‏مطرقة الجزار, ‏قتل (assassinate, assassination, bag, butcher, croak, death, despatch, dispatch, do in, end, finish, fire, homicide, immolate, kill, killing, knock off, lay out, manslaughter, murder, procure, put down, put to death, shoot, slay, take for a ride), ‏صرع (bring down, bump, cut down, floor, knock down, pick off, strike, stun), ‏ذبح بالفأس. (various references)

   

Czech

  

popravit (execute, put to death), halapartna (halberd, pole axe), řeznická sekera. (various references)

   

French

  

terrasser, merlin, hache d'arme (poleax), assommer, abattre (pot). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

לשחוט ב'רזן. (various references)

   

Italian

  

mazzapicchio (poleax), atterrare (alight, cast, fell, knock down, land, Lodge, poleax, takeoff, throw, touch down). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

oleaxepay

   

Russian 

  

секира (poleax). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

sacrificar (destroy, do away with, give, give up, lay down, light, poleax, put down, sacrifice, slaughter, throw), matar con hacha (poleax), hacha de armas (battle axe, battle-ax, poleax), hacha de abordaje (poleax), alabarda (halberd, poleax). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

uzun saplı balta (poleax), kasap baltası (poleax), deniz savaşlarında kullanılan balta (poleax). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

убивати сокирою (poleax), алебарда (battle axe, halberd, poleax), бердиш (poleax). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Poleaxe

Derivations

Words beginning with "poleaxe": poleaxed, poleaxes. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Poleaxe

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-e-l-o-p-x"

-1 letter: poleax.

-2 letters: elope, expel.

-3 letters: alee, aloe, apex, axel, axle, expo, leap, lope, olea, opal, pale, peal, peel, pele, plea, pole.

-4 letters: ale, alp, ape, axe, eel, lap, lax, lea, lee, lex, lop, lox, ole, ope, pal, pax, pea, pee, pol, pox.

-5 letters: ae, al, ax, el, ex, la, lo, oe, op, ox, pa, pe.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-e-l-o-p-x"
 

+1 letter: poleaxed, poleaxes.

 

+3 letters: apoplexies, exportable, extemporal.

 

+4 letters: exceptional, exploitable, explorative, exponential, expostulate, extrapolate, overexplain, phylloxerae.

 

+5 letters: exploitative, exponentials, expostulated, expostulates, expressional, extemporally, extrapolated, extrapolates, hexaploidies, overexplains, praxeologies.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Poleaxe


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

50 6F 6C 65 61 78 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010000 01101111 01101100 01100101 01100001 01111000 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#111 &#108 &#101 &#97 &#120 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 006F 006C 0065 0061 0078 0065

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

50817871679071

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Non-English Dictionaries with "Poleaxe"

LanguageCoverageLanguage Translations

Arabic

‏معجم, ‏قاموس, ‏الوضوحية في الشيء, ‏حد, ‏تحديد, ‏تعريف, ‏التحديد, ‏الإيضاحية, ‏ترجمة من لغة أجنبية للغة الأم, ‏ترجمة, ‏إفتتان‏العربية, ‏عربي, ‏اللغة العربية, arabský, arabština, arabe, ערבית, ערבי, arabo, арабский, árabe, arapça, arap, araplara özgü, арабська мова, арабський

Czech

slovník, definice, překlad‏تشيكي, ‏اللغة التشيكوسلوفاكية, ‏التشيكي أحد أبناء تشيكوسلوفاكيا, èesky, èeské, èech, èeština, èeský, èeška, tchèque, ceco, чешский, checo, Çek, çekoslovakyalı kimse, çekoslovakyalı, çek dili, чех, чеська мова, чеський, чешка

French

dictionnaire, définition, traduction‏اللغة الفرنسية, ‏فرنسي, ‏الشعب الفرنسي, francouzský, francouzština, français, צרפתית, צרפתי, francese, французский, francés, fransızca, fransız, Fransiz, fransızca ile ilgili, fransa ile ilgili, французька мова, французький

Hebrew

אוצר מילים, "'"ר", "'בל", תור'מ ות, תר'ום, "עתק", "עתק‏اليهودية, ‏اللغة العبرية, ‏يهودي, ‏عبري, ‏العبرية, hebrejský, hebrejec, hebrejka, hebrejština, hébreu, עברי, עברית, ebreo, ebraico, еврей, древнееврейский язык, древнееврейский, еврейский, hebreo, musevi, ibranice, ibrani, іудей, іврит, старо"врейська мова, старо"врейський, "врейський, "врей

Italian

dizionario, definizione, traduzione‏الإيطالي, ‏اللغة الإيطالية, ‏إيطالي, ‏شخص إيطالي, italský, italština, ital, italien, איטלקית, איטלקי, italiano, итальянский язык, итальянец, итальянский, italyanca, italyan, італі"ць, італійська мова, італійський, італійка

Russian

словарь, определение, трансляция, сдвиг, перевод, перемещение‏روسي, ‏اللغة الروسية, ‏الروسية, ruština, ruský, רוסי, russo, русский, ruso, Rusça, росіянка, росіянин, російська мова, російський

Spanish

diccionario, definición, traducción‏اللغة الأسبانية, ‏الأسبانية, ‏أسباني, španìlský, španìlština, espagnol, ספר"ית, ספר"י, spagnolo, испанский, español, ispanyollar, ispanyol, ispanyolca, іспанський, іспанська мова

Turkish

sözlük, ansiklopedik sözlük, açıklama, belirleme, belirtme, kesinleştirme, tanım, tarif, seçiklik, tanımlama, tercüme‏تركي أحد أبناء تركيا, ‏اللغة التركية, turecký, tureètina, turque, טורקי, турецкий, turco, türkçe, türk, турецький, турецька мова

Ukrainian

словник, довідник, чіткість, тлумачення, виразність, визначення, дефініція, ясність, чітка чутність, процес перекладу, переклад, пояснення, переміщення‏أوكراني أحد أبناء أوكرانيا, ‏الأوكراني, ukrajinec, ukrajinština, ukrajinský, ukrajinka, ukrainien, ucraino, украинский язык, украинский, украинец украинский, ucranio, ukraynalı, ukrayna, ukraynaca, український, українець

English

Dictionary, Definition, Translation‏الإنجليزية, ‏الأنكليزي, ‏إنكليزي, ‏ترجمة إنكليزية, ‏اللغة الإنكليزية, anglicky, anglais, א 'לית, inglese, английский, inglés, ingiltere, ingiliz, Íngílízce, ingilizce, Íngílíz, ýngilizce, англійський, англійці, англійська мова
 


INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Translations: Modern
5. Derivations
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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