spontoon
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About thirty or forty men, each armed with a spontoon, a bow, and arrows, stood drawn up on a rising ground close by the village.
From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 16 by Kerr, Robert
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
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 Sabatini, Rafael
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 Freytag, Gustav
Turning short, Lewis plunged into the river to mid-waist and faced about with his spontoon at the bear's nose.
From Pathfinders of the West Being the Thrilling Story of the Adventures of the Men Who Discovered the Great Northwest: Radisson, La Vérendrye, Lewis and Clark by Laut, Agnes C. (Agnes Christina)
