spontoon
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The point of the spontoon was as steel crusted o'er; the ax of the halberd might have come from a boucherie; the blade of the "Partizan" resembled a great leaf at autumn-time.
From The Lady of the Mount by Frederic Stewart Isham
Upon this the two young men came running out; one caught up a partisan from the rack which stood there, the other seized the spontoon of his father.
From Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini by John Addington Symonds
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
I felt a momentary solace in hearing him order one of his men to follow with the armchair, where my spontoon was still concealed.
From The True Story Book by Andrew Lang
He was now a solemn stalking-horse, bearing a rigid, buckram-mailed showman, whose only sound or movement resided in the plates of his armour, or his lath sword or gilded spontoon.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 21 by Alexander Leighton
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