spontoon
Example Sentences
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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.
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 Gustav Freytag
When left alone, he examined it carefully, and realised that if pointed, it would make an excellent spontoon.
From The True Story Book by Andrew Lang
Holding his spontoon ready, but concealed under his coat, he stepped to the side of the door.
From The Historical Nights' Entertainment First Series by Rafael Sabatini
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 Rafael Sabatini
