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  • noun A close quarter combat weapon with the main fighting part of the weapon placed on the end of a long shaft, typically of wood.

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Examples

  • He wore a long leather duster and had a polearm of some kind slung over his shoulder and a pistol on his hip in a holster strapped on over his jeans.

    Crossed J.F. Lewis 2011

  • He wore a long leather duster and had a polearm of some kind slung over his shoulder and a pistol on his hip in a holster strapped on over his jeans.

    Crossed J.F. Lewis 2011

  • All that was left to Hamuul was to protect the three—no, he amended as another orc impaled Renferal with a polearm, pinning her to the earth—two night elf druids who still survived.

    The Shattering Christie Golden 2010

  • All that was left to Hamuul was to protect the three—no, he amended as another orc impaled Renferal with a polearm, pinning her to the earth—two night elf druids who still survived.

    The Shattering Christie Golden 2010

  • Homer considered the Thracians a nation of horsemen; Thucydides respected their daggers; Romans feared their polearm.

    The Spartacus War Barry Strauss 2009

  • Homer considered the Thracians a nation of horsemen; Thucydides respected their daggers; Romans feared their polearm.

    The Spartacus War Barry Strauss 2009

  •   Paul was lean and muscular, but he held no illusion of winning in unarmed gladiatorial combat: Rheena resembled a purple tank, her sides flapping over her legs like jowly sheets of steel, and that spike loomed on her nose like some fearsome medieval polearm.

    True Love and the Giraffe 2009

  • Homer considered the Thracians a nation of horsemen; Thucydides respected their daggers; Romans feared their polearm.

    The Spartacus War Barry Strauss 2009

  • Homer considered the Thracians a nation of horsemen; Thucydides respected their daggers; Romans feared their polearm.

    The Spartacus War Barry Strauss 2009

  • I need a laser polearm viking wookie action figure NOW

    Cleaning out the My Pictures folder David Campbell 2007

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