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Definition of Poleaxed
1. poleax [v] - See also: poleax
Lexicographical Neighbors of Poleaxed
Literary usage of Poleaxed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler, Richard Alexander Streatfeild (1916)
"And then there's his dear eyes—but when I speak about that to my Rose she calls
me an old fool and says I ought to be poleaxed. It's that Pryer as I can't ..."
2. The Nineteenth Century (1891)
"... with the blood of an ox she has just poleaxed or of a lamb whose throat she
has this instant cut, is one of unmitigated horror and moral incongruity. ..."
3. Report of the Annual Meeting (1907)
"On clearing from 18 feet to 22 feet the finds were as follows : Skulls of cows
and other bones of cows and sheep—all cows were poleaxed ; part of the skull ..."
4. The Antiquary by Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson (1906)
"The finds were as follows : Skulls of cows and other bones of cows and sheep—
all cows were poleaxed ; part of the skull of a dog, and three fragments of ..."
5. "Great-Heart": The Life Story of Theodore Roosevelt by Daniel Henderson (1919)
""One bull dropped to the shot as if poleaxed, falling straight on his back with
his legs kicking, but in a moment he was up again and after the others. ..."
6. The Journal of Comparative Pathology and Therapeutics (1907)
"... gasping for breath, and then fell on the floor as if he had been poleaxed.
He lay there still for a second or two, then respiration recommenced, ..."
7. The Journal of Comparative Pathology and Therapeutics (1901)
"As far as could be made out, the objects at the base of the brain and the cerebellum
were normal, but the animal had been FIG. i. poleaxed through the right ..."
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