brown-bill

““I am just now like the half-pike, or spontoon of Achilles, one end of which could wound and the other cure — a property belonging neither to Spanish pike, brown-bill, partizan, halberd, Lochaber-axe, or indeed any other modern staff-weapon whatever.””

A Legend of Montrose

“He is fitter to do the juggling tricks of the Norman chivalry than to maintain the fame and honour of his English ancestry with the glaive and brown-bill, the good old weapons of his country. '”

Ivanhoe

“` ` I am just now like the half-pike, or spontoon of Achilles, one end of which could wound, and the other cure --- a property belonging neither to Spanish pike, brown-bill, partizan, halberd,”

A Legend of Montrose

“The sentinel who was stationed there, armed with a brown-bill, or species of partisan, reported that he had heard no motion in the apartment during the whole night.”

Waverley Novels — Volume 12

“= brown-bill =: a weapon consisting of a long staff with a hook-shaped blade at the top.”

The Literary World Seventh Reader

“He is fitter to do the juggling tricks of the Norman chivalry than to maintain the fame and honour of his English ancestry with the glaive and brown-bill, the good old weapons of his country.””

Ivanhoe

“English ancestry with the [v] glaive and [v] brown-bill, the good old weapons of the country. ”

The Literary World Seventh Reader

“He is fitter to do the juggling tricks of the Norman chivalry than to maintain the fame and honour of his English ancestry with the glaive and brown-bill, the good old weapons of his country. ”

Ivanhoe. A Romance