spontoons

Officers had traded swords and spontoons for hatchets and knives.

George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

Officers had traded swords and spontoons for hatchets and knives.

George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

Officers had traded swords and spontoons for hatchets and knives.

George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

Officers had traded swords and spontoons for hatchets and knives.

George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

Thus Mr. Fiennes grew up in rarefied circumstances, surrounded by the artifacts (and vocabulary) of a vanished world: ­halberds and stanchions, vaults and corbels, groined passages, burgonets, rapiers and spontoons.

Within The Castle Walls 2009

The spontoons from minden - have you had any problems with breakage?

My Jacobite Army Der Alte Fritz 2008

The colour party stood beside him, two teenage Ensigns holding the precious flags that were guarded by a squad of chosen men commanded by hard-bitten Sergeants armed with spontoons.

Sharpe's Battle Cornwell, Bernard 1995

Sergeants drove spontoons hard into the mass of Frenchmen, skewering them with the pikehead, twisting it free and driving it forward again.

Sharpe's Battle Cornwell, Bernard 1995

Both sets of flags were surrounded by bayonets and defended by Sergeants carrying spontoons, the long, heavy, lance-headed pikes designed to kill any horse or man daring to thrust in to capture the fringed silk trophies.

Sharpe's Battle Cornwell, Bernard 1995

Heeding the warning, Drake hastened away to the Isle of Pinos, off the isthmus, left the ships at a concealed cove here, armed fifty-three of his boldest fellows with muskets, crossbows, pikes, and spontoons.

Vikings of the Pacific The Adventures of the Explorers who Came from the West, Eastward 1903