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Home Dictionary Name: battle axPoleax
Anciently a kind of battle ax with a long handle later an ax or hatchet with a short handle and a head variously patterned used by soldiers and also by sailors in boarding a vessel...
Battle ax
A kind of broadax formerly used as an offensive weapon...
Broadax
An ancient military weapon a battle ax...
Battlings
Battlings [fr. battellus, Lat., a small measure, fr. batus, measure of allowance], an allowance of money, as 'battles,' or 'battels,' is an allowance of provisions, Encyc. Londin....
battle hardened
Experienced in combat and therefore more effective at fighting used mostly of infantry troops as battle hardened veterans...
Embattle
To arrange in order of battle to array for battle also to prepare or arm for battle to equip as for battle...
Battailous
Arrayed for battle fit or eager for battle warlike...
Cannae
the name of a battle in which Hannibal defeated the Romans in 216 b c Called also battle of Cannae...
Gettysburg
The name of a battle of the American Civil War fought in and around the town of Gettysburg Pennsylavania in 1863 At this battle the defeat of General Robert E Lees invading Confederate army was a major victory for the Union and is considered by many a turning point in the war after which victory by the Confederacy was no longer thought possible as many thousands died at Gettysburg See also Gettysburg Address...
Knights bannerets
Knights bannerets [milites vexillarii, Lat.], those created by the sovereign in person on the field of battle, formerly entitled to a banner in battle. They have been said to rank, generally, after Knights of the Garter. 1 Bl. Com. 403....
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