arblast

* The arblast was a cross-bow, the windlace the machine

Ivanhoe 1892

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.

Ivanhoe 2004

-- - 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. "

Ivanhoe. A Romance 1819

“Unbend thy arblast, and come into the moonlight,” said the

The Talisman 2008

Their foot-ranks carry a missile weapon unknown to us, termed an arblast, or cross-bow.

Count Robert of Paris 2008

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.

Count Robert of Paris 2008

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.

Burlesques 2006

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.

Ivanhoe 2004

Arblaster may have either made or used the arblast or cross-bow, medieval Lat. arcubalista, bow-sling.

The Romance of Names Ernest Weekley 1909

` ` Unbend thy arblast, and come into the moonlight, '' said the

The Talisman 1894