poleax

Other forms of poleax

plural

poleaxes·

past tense

poleaxed·

present participle

poleaxing·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about poleax

What does poleax mean?

poleax means "an ax used to slaughter cattle; has a hammer opposite the blade". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in poleax?

poleax has 3 syllables: po-le-ax. The stress falls on "po".

What is another word for poleax?

Close synonyms include poleaxe, poleaxe, poleaxe. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is poleax a common word?

poleax is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.