Pole-axe (originally pollax, from poll, 'the head,' and axe). See BATTLE-AXE.
Pole-axe
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 8: Peasant to Eoumelia, p. 282
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Pole-axe (originally pollax, from poll, 'the head,' and axe). See BATTLE-AXE.