Halberds

Word HALBERDS
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Definitions and meanings of "Halberds"

What do we mean by halberds?

A hand weapon consisting of a long pole fitted with a metal head; the head consists of a blade similar to an axe and usually a spike or hook.

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The word "halberds" in example sentences

In a few cases there may possibly be a doubt as to whether they should be classified as halberds or primitive daggers. ❋ George Coffey (1886)

Also, in the case of the halberds, the great rarity of any specimens of bronze blades which can be classified as halberds indicates that the form of implement practically ceased to be used when bronze came into use in Ireland. ❋ George Coffey (1886)

The guards move ahead and behind me, the blades of their halberds gleaming. ❋ Lucy Weston (2011)

In Germany, people dueled with pikes and halberds. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The narrow streets from the Whitehall water steps to the Abbey are packed so tightly that I wonder how anyone can breathe, the crowd held in check by yeoman guards holding steel-edged halberds at the ready. ❋ Lucy Weston (2011)

But this time your own children are ravaging and afflicting you … by murdering and strangling each other within your bosom, without any mercy whatsoever, with enormous swords, fully drawn, with pistols and with halberds.75 ❋ Russell Jacoby (2011)

FWIW, halberds and other polearms were one of the standard weapons issued to city guards in the later medieval and Renaissance eras. ❋ Unknown (2009)

His arrows, sword, and bow shared space with the spears and wicked-looking halberds abandoned by those who had fled at Jon-Tom's appearance. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Both of them held their halberds in front of them, as if they were afraid he might be tempted to attack them. ❋ Michael J. Solender (2010)

He was returned to the Tower of London to await his terrible sentence, surrounded by guards with halberds and swords. ❋ Elizabeth Massie (2010)

Both carried the long halberds that-along with the truncheons slung at their belts-were the only weapons of the Watch. ❋ Michael J. Solender (2010)

The Swiss Guard might actually have to use those halberds. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Guards stood at every door, Africans in bright silk uniforms armed with halberds and scimitars. ❋ Mr. Scott Westerfeld (2010)

I do indeed live a peaceful life, and I have no delusions either about bringing a knife to a gunfight (although knives can be as effective as guns at close range) or about the practicality of swords and spears and halberds in a world of Predator drones, tactical nukes, laser-guided missiles and the ubiquitous 9mm autopistol. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The other officers of the lodge followed after, bearing their halberds, chains of office, and the volume of the sacred law. ❋ Unknown (2007)

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