pensile

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Behind were the little clump of steel-clad horsemen, their lances raised, with long pensils drooping down the oaken shafts.

From The White Company by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir

They say that at the sight of the pensils a-flutter, at the sound of the hunting-horns, the Grifons let fly a shaft a-piece; then threw down their bows and scattered.

From The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay by Hewlett, Maurice Henry

The young Dutchess of Norfolk being lately deceased, her herse began to be set up on the 28th, in St. Clements, without Temple bar, and was this day finished with banners, pensils, wax, and escutcheons.”

From Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) by School, A Sexton of the Old