spontoon

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Casanova went first, on all fours, and thrusting the point of his spontoon between the joints of the lead sheeting so as to obtain a hold, he crawled slowly upwards.

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

The nobility, it was said, were the nursery for the spontoon.

From Pictures of German Life in the XVIIIth and XIXth Centuries, Vol. II. by Freytag, Gustav

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 First Across the Continent The story of the exploring expedition of Lewis and Clark in 1804-5-6 by Brooks, Noah

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

Recovered, he took up his spontoon, which he had placed in the gutter, and, assisted by it, he climbed back to the dormer.

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