arbalest
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And now he closed the door, and, going to the window, which was little more than an arrow-slit, he shouldered his arbalest.
From Love-at-Arms by Rafael Sabatini
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
Holding the arbalest with one hand, Daoud vaulted into the saddle.
From The Saracen: Land of the Infidel by Robert Shea
Call Hugh of the Mill, and Woodman Wat, and Raoul with his arbalest and bolts.
From The White Company by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
A man of Damme, not being able to pay Claes for his coal, gave him his most valuable possession, which was an arbalest with twelve quarrels well pointed to serve as missiles.
From The Legend of Ulenspiegel, Volume I (of 2) And Lamme Goedzak, and their Adventures Heroical, Joyous and Glorious in the Land of Flanders and Elsewhere by Charles Th?odore Henri de Coster
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