spontoon

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In a collection at the Douglas House, in Houghton, Portage Lake, are ornaments of this kind, and also some spear-heads, nicely wrought and similar in shape and size to the blade of a spontoon.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 89, March, 1865 by Various

The broad lance subsisted till lately in the halberd; the spear and framea in the long pike and spontoon; the missile weapons in the war hatchet, or North American tomahawk.

From The Germany and the Agricola of Tacitus by Tacitus, Cornelius

When Balbi wrote that his walls were hung with pictures of saints, it became a question of conveying the spontoon to him.

From The Historical Nights' Entertainment First Series by Sabatini, Rafael

He had just reached a spot where, by the assistance of his spontoon, he could stand with tolerable safety, when he heard a voice behind him cry out, “Good God, captain, what shall I do?”

From With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 1 by Various

Holding his spontoon ready, but concealed under his coat, he stepped to the side of the door.

From The Historical Nights' Entertainment First Series by Sabatini, Rafael