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

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.

Then I said: “O Pagolo, my son, did the spontoon then pierce through your armour?”

From Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini by Symonds, John Addington

Amidst a storm of iron hail Jasper leaped from one of the embrasures, recovered the flag, mounted it on his spontoon staff and unfurled it to the breeze.

From Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution by Judson, L. Carroll

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