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• n  an ax used to slaughter cattle; has a hammer opposite the blade
• n  a battle ax used in the Middle Ages; a long handled ax and a pick
• v  fell with or as if with a poleax

• Among her contributions is a design for a curved slaughterhouse ramp that is said to reduce animal anxiety by keeping hidden the high-tech poleax that dispatches the critters.
• Since there is no other reference to an incident involving Poles, critics generally agree that Shakespeare was referring to a heavy or "leaded poleax" that the king smote on the .
• His congressional critics, buttressed by 47 newly elected Republicans, stand ready to poleax any overambitious new measures.

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News & Articles

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• JetBlue’s Got Bigger Problems Than the Polar Vortex
  If you were trying to get to Vegas on JetBlue’s Flight 711 yesterday, you were out of luck. So were customers on more than 400 JetBlue flights, as the crippling “polar vortex” snow and cold combined with new Federal Aviation Administration rules pertaining to pilot rest to poleax the carrier’s logistics. According to FlightAware.com, 46% of JetBlue’s flights were canceled yesterday. The company ...
  Jan. 7, 2014 - Time Magazine