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15th-century Venetian poleaxe at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
The poleaxe (also pollaxe, pole-axe, pole axe, poleax, polax) is a European polearm that was used by medieval infantry.
The poleaxe (also pollaxe, pole-axe, pole axe, poleax, polax) is a European polearm that was used by medieval infantry. Most etymological authorities...
faucon (meaning "falcon's beak"), refers to a related weapon called a poleaxe or, more specifically, to the hook on its reverse side. Husár, Martin;...
when the hammer was struck, resulting in tremendous force upon impact. Poleaxe Swiss arms and armour Oakeshott, Ewart (1980). European Weapons and Armour...
The Lochaber axe (Gaelic: tuagh-chatha) is a type of poleaxe that was used almost exclusively in Scotland. It was usually mounted on a staff about five...
Early Middle Ages and High Middle Ages, later being developed into the poleaxe, halberd and other similar polearms by lengthening the shaft and adding...
primary focus on archaic weapons such as the arming sword, longsword, or poleaxe, these older treatises do not really stand in continuity with modern fencing...
agricultural implement known as a bill and is commonly classified as a type of Poleaxe. "That no man presume to wear any weapons, especially Welsh-hooks and forest-bills"...
men-at-arms fighting as super-heavy infantry with two-handed swords and poleaxes.[citation needed] In any case, warfare in the Middle Ages tended to be...
long shaft that had protrusions on either side for parrying sword thrusts Poleaxe, a type of polearm with an axehead or hammerhead on the sides with either...
aerial challenge by West Ham United striker Andy Carroll that left him "poleaxed", with Ferguson expressing his disbelief at the lack of a red card. De...
preventing the sperm from leaking out. This possibility sometimes called the "Poleaxe Hypothesis" or the "Knockout Hypothesis", is now considered unlikely. A...
personally delivered the death blow to King Richard III at Bosworth with his poleaxe. Rhys was the youngest legitimate son of Thomas ap Gruffydd ap Nicolas...
but was subsequently disarmed. At this point, Boucicaut reached for his poleaxe but the lords intervened to end the duel. Fiore surfaces again in Pavia...
used round and heater-type shields, spears, axes, billhooks, pikes, and poleaxes. For close combat, both sides would have had swords, light axes, war hammers...
stunning was used in premodern times in the case of cattle, which were poleaxed prior to being bled out. However, prior to slaughter pistols and electric...
2013 (2013-08-08) Items appraised include an antique Apache pistol; two medieval poleaxes; and a sheet of uncut Giori test notes. Also, Corey pranks Chumlee by having...
double Plate armor with one of its pellets. The "halberd" (actually a poleaxe) was a shown to be a deadly and versatile weapon, as it tore of the back...
made by Forged in Fire's bladesmiths, including the Nagamaki, Knightly Poleaxe, Glaive Guisarme, Scottish Claymore, and the Zweihänder. BO5 Special–5...
spearlike weapon with a hooked poll, effective against mounted cavalry. Poleaxe: designed to defeat plate armour. Its axe (or hammer) head is much narrower...
fearsome two-handed poleaxe, leading one veteran to recall: "He reached no one whom he did not fell". Seward noted that Bedford's poleaxe "smashed open an...
part of an unpleasant shift in tone that would permeate and eventually poleaxe the era. How did Nathan-Turner and Saward think that this approach might...
interest in Company affairs, serving as its Master (2011–12). Arms: Azure two Poleaxes in saltire Or blades inwards between two Bulls' Heads couped in fesse Argent...
where he dismounted to fight in the forefront of his surrounded men with a poleaxe in his hands, as well as the creation of the Order of the Star. This was...
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