Tomahawk vs Poleaxe - What's the difference?
tomahawk | poleaxe |
An ax/axe used by American Indian (First Nations) warriors.
* 1615 , Ralph Hamor, A True Discourse of the Present State of Virginia (published in Richmond in 1957), page 13:
(basketball): A dunk in which the person dunking the ball does so with his arm behind his head.
(geometry) A geometric construction consisting of a semicircle and two line segments that serves as a tool for trisecting an angle; so called from its resemblance to the American Indian axe.
(field hockey) A field hockey shot style that involves a player turning their hockey stick upside-down and swinging it so that its inside edge will come into contact with the ball.
To strike with a tomahawk.
*1906 , (FE Smith), maiden speech to House of Commons, 12 Mar 1906:
*:Not satisfied with tomahawking our colleagues in the country, they ask the scanty remnant in the House to join in the scalp dance.
an ax having both a blade and a hammer face; used to slaughter cattle
a long-handled battle-ax, being a combination of ax, hammer and pike
to fell someone with, or as if with, a poleaxe
to shock or surprise
As nouns the difference between tomahawk and poleaxe
is that tomahawk is the land attack missile (tlam), a long-range, all-weather, subsonic cruise missile with stubby wings, which can be launched from a ship or submarine while poleaxe is an ax having both a blade and a hammer face; used to slaughter cattle.As a verb poleaxe is
to fell someone with, or as if with, a poleaxe.tomahawk
English
(wikipedia tomahawk)Noun
(en noun)- yeerely bring into our store house, at the beginning of their haruest two bushels of corne a man [...] for which they should receiue so many Iron Tomahawkes or small hatchets.