calthrop

The calthrop is a handy tool if you have to run for it, particularly if the guys after you are going to be on horseback.

She Is The Darkness Cook, Glen 1997

In a word, he knew alike how to triumph either in flight or in pursuit, and remained upright even before those enemies who appeared to have struck him down; resembling the military implement termed the calthrop, which remains always upright in whatever direction it is thrown on the ground.”

Count Robert of Paris 2008

In a word, he knew alike how to triumph either in flight or in pursuit, and remained upright even before those enemies who appeared to have struck him down; resembling the military implement termed the calthrop, which remains always upright in whatever direction it is thrown on the ground. "

Waverley Novels — Volume 12 Walter Scott 1801

The council was held in the camp within sight of the fort, by the light of torches; after she had been persuaded to withdraw, on account of a slight wound in her foot from a calthrop, it is said.

Jeanne d'Arc Oliphant, Mrs. 1896

The council was held in the camp within sight of the fort, by the light of torches; after she had been persuaded to withdraw, on account of a slight wound in her foot from a calthrop, it is said.

Jeanne D'Arc: her life and death 1862

Booboo works without being an emotional calthrop. "

Soldiers Live Cook, Glen 2000