Definitions
Etymologies
- From Old French arbaleste (modern arbalète), from late Latin arcuballista, from arcus ‘bow’. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“* The arblast was a cross-bow, the windlace the machine”
“33 The arblast was a cross-bow, the windlace the machine used in bending that weapon, and the quarrell, so called from its square or diamond-shaped head, was the bolt adapted to it.”
“-- - Here be two arblasts, comrades, with windlaces and quarrells The arblast was a cross-bow, the windlace the machine used in bending that weapon, and the quarrell, so called from its square or diamond-shaped head, was the bolt adapted to it. -- - to the barbican with you, and see you drive each bolt through a Saxon brain. ”
““Unbend thy arblast, and come into the moonlight,” said the”
“Their foot-ranks carry a missile weapon unknown to us, termed an arblast, or cross-bow.”
“This vessel contained upwards of a hundred valiant warriors, several of them of knightly order, who had all night toiled at the humble labours of the oar, and now in the morning applied their chivalrous hands to the arblast and to the bow, which were in general accounted the weapons of persons of a lower rank.”
“Swift as thought the veteran archer raised his arblast to his shoulder, the whizzing bolt fled from the ringing string, and the next moment crashed quivering into the corselet of Plantagenet.”
“They are forbidden by our statutes to take one bird by means of another, to shoot beasts with bow or arblast, to halloo to a hunting-horn, or to spur the horse after game.”
“Arblaster may have either made or used the arblast or cross-bow, medieval Lat. arcubalista, bow-sling.”
“` ` Unbend thy arblast, and come into the moonlight, '' said the”
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Desserts of Random Palavery
Another of my Random Palavery lists, still an eclectic listing of terms that catch my eye and ear. It can't be helped. I am, (as a former partner phrased it) a word-bird.
chablis, ervy, keek, armiger, argand lamp, arblast, milch-cow, cow-calf units, durrus, tom noddy, low-bell, cargo cult and 139 more...
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minkhollow's Words
loquacious, serendipity, extraterrestrial, amphora, hogswatch, bohemian, defenestrate, echolalia, onomatopoeia, resograph, fedora, obfuscate and 5 more...
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hernesheir (n): a medieval crossbow. Also arbalest. Jan 19, 2009
minkhollow Old French (with a bit of bleeding over into English) for 'weapon.' Feb 11, 2007