spontoon

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Captain Lewis ran about eighty yards, but finding that the animal gained on him fast ... he turned short, plunged into the river about waist deep, and facing about presented the point of his spontoon.

From Explorers and Travellers by Greely, Adolphus W.

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.

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 Symonds, John Addington

When left alone, he examined it carefully, and realised that if pointed, it would make an excellent spontoon.

From The True Story Book by Lang, Andrew

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