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- noun A
close quarter combat weapon with the main fighting part of the weapon placed on the end of a long shaft, typically of wood.
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Examples
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He wore a long leather duster and had a polearm of some kind slung over his shoulder and a pistol on his hip in a holster strapped on over his jeans.
Crossed J.F. Lewis 2011
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He wore a long leather duster and had a polearm of some kind slung over his shoulder and a pistol on his hip in a holster strapped on over his jeans.
Crossed J.F. Lewis 2011
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All that was left to Hamuul was to protect the three—no, he amended as another orc impaled Renferal with a polearm, pinning her to the earth—two night elf druids who still survived.
The Shattering Christie Golden 2010
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All that was left to Hamuul was to protect the three—no, he amended as another orc impaled Renferal with a polearm, pinning her to the earth—two night elf druids who still survived.
The Shattering Christie Golden 2010
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Homer considered the Thracians a nation of horsemen; Thucydides respected their daggers; Romans feared their polearm.
The Spartacus War Barry Strauss 2009
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Homer considered the Thracians a nation of horsemen; Thucydides respected their daggers; Romans feared their polearm.
The Spartacus War Barry Strauss 2009
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Paul was lean and muscular, but he held no illusion of winning in unarmed gladiatorial combat: Rheena resembled a purple tank, her sides flapping over her legs like jowly sheets of steel, and that spike loomed on her nose like some fearsome medieval polearm.
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Homer considered the Thracians a nation of horsemen; Thucydides respected their daggers; Romans feared their polearm.
The Spartacus War Barry Strauss 2009
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Homer considered the Thracians a nation of horsemen; Thucydides respected their daggers; Romans feared their polearm.
The Spartacus War Barry Strauss 2009
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I need a laser polearm viking wookie action figure NOW
Cleaning out the My Pictures folder David Campbell 2007
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