spontoon
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Figure 4 shows an Austrian officers' spontoon, used about the seventeenth century.
From The Boy Mechanic: Volume 1 700 Things for Boys to Do by Popular Mechanics Co.
My mercer had his spontoon in his hand, as if he measured his cloth by that implement, instead of a legitimate yard.
From The Antiquary — Volume 01 by Sir Walter Scott
Using as a whetstone a small slab of black marble, similarly acquired, he had shaped that bolt into a sharp octagonal-pointed chisel or spontoon.
From The Historical Nights' Entertainment First Series by Rafael Sabatini
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
The captain and lieutenant bore in their hands the partisan, which had already been a little diminished, and was called spontoon; the subordinate officers still carried the short pike.
From Pictures of German Life in the XVIIIth and XIXth Centuries, Vol. II. by Gustav Freytag
