spontoon

Example Sentences

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The wolves which had been feasting on these carcasses were very fat, and so gentle that one of them was killed with a spontoon.

From With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 1 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 Lang, Andrew

"There is nothing in it," replied Goldsmith, starting up with impatience, "give me a spontoon; I can do it as well myself."

From Dr. Johnson's Works: Life, Poems, and Tales, Volume 1 The Works of Samuel Johnson, Ll.D., in Nine Volumes by Johnson, Samuel

One weighed tentatively that delicate weapon, a spontoon; a second stroked his halberd, as liking to feel the smoothness of the shaft, while a third reached for a gleaming "Folard's Partizan."

From The Lady of the Mount by Isham, Frederic Stewart

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 Isham, Frederic Stewart