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Arbalist   Listen
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Arbalist, Arbalest  n.  (Written also arbalet and arblast)  (Antiq.) A crossbow, consisting of a steel bow set in a shaft of wood, furnished with a string and a trigger, and a mechanical device for bending the bow. It served to throw arrows, darts, bullets, etc.






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"Arbalist" Quotes from Famous Books



... 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. [86] As long as the horses were fresh, and the quivers full, Soliman maintained the advantage of the day; and four thousand Christians were pierced by the Turkish arrows. In the evening, swiftness ...
— The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Volume 5 • Edward Gibbon

... I will respond: 'Yes, George, it is true. And moreover I was with him on the day when his mind commenced to give way. The day he offered me a full half of the spoils of my own—what do you call it?—oh, yes, arbalest.'" ...
— White Ashes • Sidney R. Kennedy and Alden C. Noble



Words linked to "Arbalist" :   onager, trebucket, engine, arbalest, ballista, catapult



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