arbalest
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Something hurtled hotly through my hair—the iron bolt of an arbalest, as I knew by the song of the steel bow in a man's hand at the end of the passage.
From Red Axe by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
Then opening a large chest that stood against the wall, he rummaged a moment, and at last withdrew an arbalest quarrel.
From Love-at-Arms by Rafael Sabatini
But no arbalest was pointed thence, and the fight flagged.
From A Monk of Fife by Andrew Lang
"By St. Denis, I fancy not those bolts," exclaimed De Lacy, as a quarrel from an arbalest glanced along his helmet near the eye hole.
From Beatrix of Clare by Clarence F. Underwood
And with that he began winding up his arbalest hastily.
From A Monk of Fife by Andrew Lang
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