arbalest
Example Sentences
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Once an arbalest bolt struck my staff from my hand as I walked, and I was fain to take shelter of a corner, yet saw not whence the shot came.
From A Monk of Fife by Andrew Lang
Call Hugh of the Mill, and Woodman Wat, and Raoul with his arbalest and bolts.
From The White Company by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Then, like an animal at bay—and even a rat will assert itself then—he swung aloft the heavy arbalest he held, and stood barring Ercole's way.
From Love-at-Arms by Rafael Sabatini
His Queries of course have reference to the long bow, and not to the arbalest, or cross-bow.
On the other hand, they are the sorriest archers that I have ever seen, and cannot so much as aim with the arbalest, to say nought of the long-bow.
From The White Company by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
