spontoon

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Only a quick thrust of his spontoon into the cliff saved him from falling almost a hundred feet.

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)

I felt a momentary solace in hearing him order one of his men to follow with the armchair, where my spontoon was still concealed.

From The True Story Book by Lang, Andrew

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.

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

Seest thou not how many a sergeant grows grey with his spontoon that deserved to have a company before many others.

From The Adventurous Simplicissimus being the description of the Life of a Strange vagabond named Melchior Sternfels von Fuchshaim by Grimmelshausen, Hans Jacob Christoph von