POLEAXE Synonyms

• a sharp-tongued domineering wife

• a broadax used as a weapon

• a cutting tool with a sharp edge

• a short knife with a pointed blade used for piercing or stabbing

• a character used in printing to indicate a second cross reference or footnote when the asterisk has already been used

• a pike fitted with an ax head

• a long pointed rod used as a tool or weapon

• an implement with a shaft and barbed point used for catching fish

• a surgical knife with a pointed double-edged blade; used for punctures and small incisions

• move quickly, as if by cutting one's way

• pierce with a lance, as in a knights' fight

• open by piercing with a lancet

• (formerly) a cavalryman armed with a lance

• a broad highway designed for high-speed traffic

• highly valued northern freshwater fish with lean flesh

• a sharp point (as on the end of a spear)

• medieval weapon consisting of a spearhead attached to a long pole or pikestaff; superseded by the bayonet

• any of several elongate long-snouted freshwater game and food fishes widely distributed in cooler parts of the Northern Hemisphere

• a long pointed rod used as a tool or weapon

• an implement with a shaft and barbed point used for catching fish

• pierce with a spear

• thrust up like a spear

• a cutting or thrusting weapon that has a long metal blade and a hilt with a hand guard

• any instrument or instrumentality used in fighting or hunting

• a means of persuading or arguing

• an ax used to slaughter cattle; has a hammer opposite the blade

• a battle ax used in the Middle Ages; a long handled ax and a pick

• fell with or as if with a poleax