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Definition of Poleaxing
1. poleax [v] - See also: poleax
Lexicographical Neighbors of Poleaxing
Literary usage of Poleaxing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Guide of the Perplexed of Maimonides by Moses Maimonides, Michael Friedländer (1885)
"... (poleaxing the animal), but by shechitah (cutting the neck), and by dividing
the oesophagus and the windpipe in a certain place; these regulations and ..."
2. Log-book of a Fisherman and Zoologist by Francis Trevelyan Buckland (1883)
"... those used for poleaxing horses, and consist of a sharp spike and a hammer-headed
end. This implement is fixed on to a long but strong and light handle, ..."
3. Journal of the Sanitary Institute by Sanitary Institute (Great Britain) (1900)
"Animals are slaughtered by:— (a) poleaxing and bleeding. (b) Stunning and bleeding.
(<•) Bleeding alone, as in the Jewish method, and as What are the ..."
4. Cattle, Sheep, and Deer by Duncan George Forbes Macdonald (1872)
"This alternative method of poleaxing is practised when an animal is too restive
to make the ordinary blow on the forehead practicable. It does not seem, ..."
5. The Humane Review (1901)
"... and another great advantage of shooting is that it is less demoralizing to
the slaughter-men than the violence of poleaxing and pithing. ..."
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