pole-axe

He dealt out justice here in Brownsville, Texas, where it was said he would "pole-axe" men with an open hand.

The Four Toughest Men of the Old West 2009

Marcus tossed the pole-axe he'd been practicing with back in a rack.

G'lder Curtis Hox 2011

He dealt out justice here in Brownsville, Texas, where it was said he would "pole-axe" men with an open hand.

The Four Toughest Men of the Old West 2009

Ben Smith translates a Polish poll that finds the Poles pole-axe the conservative Obama-betrayed-Poland talking point.

The Poles Have Forgotten Poland | ATTACKERMAN 2009

During his address to the man with the pole-axe, he had turned his back to M. Leblanc.

Les Miserables 2008

After watching Liberals pole-axe conservatives for years as being 'extreme' - which is merely their preferred disingenous code phrase for 'we disagree with them' - it's rather gratifying to see their mock outrage at seeing their favourite tactic deployed against them.

Archive 2007-02-01 ALW 2007

After watching Liberals pole-axe conservatives for years as being 'extreme' - which is merely their preferred disingenous code phrase for 'we disagree with them' - it's rather gratifying to see their mock outrage at seeing their favourite tactic deployed against them.

On Extremists ALW 2007

Also, down among the wheels, of the man with the sledge-hammer, ringing the axles of the fast night-train; against whom the oxen have a misgiving that he is the man with the pole-axe who is to come by-and-by, and so the nearest of them try to get back, and get a purchase for a thrust at him through the bars.

The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices 2007

It is fitted with a powerful windlass, by which one man at the handle can bring the head of an ox down to the ground to receive the blow from the pole-axe that is to fell him — with the means of raising the carcass and keeping it suspended during the after-operation of dressing — and with hooks on which carcasses can hang, when completely prepared, without touching the walls.

Reprinted Pieces 2007

His clenched fist offered to his forehead on your leaving him in just displeasure — I wish it had been a pole-axe, and in the hand of his worst enemy.

Clarissa Harlowe 2006