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poleaxe
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poleaxe
a long-handled hammer, about 9 to 10 lb, originally with an axe blade at the front, used at one time for stunning cattle prior to bleeding out at slaughter.
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Nuit Sombre came late and fast to beat favourite Duke Of Buckingham in the second and slower division of the novices' hurdle, poleaxing those exchanges' punters who piled on the runner-up at 1-100 as he cruised into the last with a five-length lead.
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