Arbalist

Word ARBALIST
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The word "arbalist" in example sentences

So when the squadrons were arranged in the wedge, he stood himself behind the warriors, and from the wallet which was slung round his neck drew an arbalist. ❋ Grammaticus Saxo (N/A)

Earthenware jars containing it were to be flung by hand or arbalist, and darts and arrows were wrapped with tow soaked in the substance. ❋ William Oliver Stevens (1916)

In the meantime here is Wat with his arbalist and a bolt in his girdle. ❋ Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 (1906)

Let us at least go back, fill up once more, and raise a mantelet against the bolts, for they have an arbalist which shoots both straight and hard. ❋ Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 (1906)

Betwixt the third couple of towers were the butts for arquebus, crossbow, and arbalist. ❋ Various (1885)

Another name for the crossbow was 'arbalist,' and its arrows were called quarils, or bolts. ❋ Various (1873)

In the rencounters to which I am going -- the sorties, the assaults, the duels single and in force, the exchanges with all arms, bow, arbalist, guns small and great, the mines and countermines -- you cannot stay out. ❋ Lewis Wallace (1866)

But the strangest thing about them was, that in every picture the canvas about the head was pricked through and through in scores of places with very fine clean holes, and, looking around in his marvel, he found an arbalist or cross-bow, with some very sharp bolts, and was so led to conjecture that some one had been setting these heads of the Protector up as a target, and shooting bolts at them. ❋ George Augustus Sala (1861)

[85] Their encounter was varied, and balanced by the contrast of arms and discipline; of the direct charge, and wheeling evolutions; of the couched lance, and the brandished javelin; of a weighty broadsword, and a crooked sabre; of cumbrous armor, and thin flowing robes; and of the long Tartar bow, and the arbalist or crossbow, a deadly weapon, yet unknown to the Orientals. ❋ Edward Gibbon (1765)

On the one side there stood a cruel man with a loaded arbalist aimed at his heart: on the other stood another holding a terrible and fierce dog which, had he let it, would have torn the king to pieces in a moment; and thus they tortured him to make him disclose the treasures; until a Franciscan monk, being informed of it, delivered him from their hands, though he died at last of his tortures. ❋ Francis Augustus MacNutt (N/A)

a crooked sabre; of cumbrous armor, and thin flowing robes; and of the long Tartar bow, and the _arbalist_ or crossbow, a deadly weapon, yet unknown to the Orientals. ❋ Edward Gibbon (1765)

He heard thee tell Gosse, Falworth, that thou wert going thither for thy arbalist this morn to shoot at the rooks withal. " ❋ Unknown (1891)

Look at yon arbalist; sure Brutus himself used such an one! " ❋ Unknown (1891)

n. - spider; a. pertaining to spiders. araneiform, adj. shaped like a spider. araneology, n. study of spiders. adj. - like a spider's web; transparent; delicate. arbalest, arbalist ❋ Unknown (2008)

85 Their encounter was varied, and balanced by the contrast of arms and discipline; of the direct charge, and wheeling evolutions; of the couched lance, and the brandished javelin; of a weighty broadsword, and a crooked sabre; of cumbrous armor, and thin flowing robes; and of the long Tartar bow, and the arbalist or crossbow, a deadly weapon, yet unknown to the Orientals. ❋ Unknown (1206)

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