targes

All of them slept with their dirks, but generally left swords, pistols, and the round leather shields called targes in small, neat heaps near the edge of the campsite.

Sick Cycle Carousel 2010

Remember to make you practice as real as possible by life size targes and tree stands, practice practice practice, and when your in the stand eliminate all the variables.

ive hunted all my life with my dad ... i just recently got into bowhunting and absolutely fell in love ... 2009

Remember to make you practice as real as possible by life size targes and tree stands, practice practice practice, and when your in the stand eliminate all the variables.

ive hunted all my life with my dad ... i just recently got into bowhunting and absolutely fell in love ... 2009

This lead to the implementation of protective barriers/barricades around U.S. military and civilian targes overseas and here in the States.

White House: Obama monitoring terror situation closely 2009

Police coming towards me, with a posse of men with swords and targes; 341 whereat I took fright and seeing a ruined Hammam hid myself there.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

From all we had heard, General MacDonald had managed to assemble only a small quantity of muskets and powder; most of his troops were armed with broadswords and targes.

A Breath of Snow and Ashes Gabaldon, Diana 2005

Before the great, lofty, wide door were ranged in two crescents several Baluch and Persian mercenaries, armed with curved swords and targes of rhinoceros hide.

How I Found Livingstone Henry Morton 2004

They carried long, slender spears and small round targes.

Dwellers in the Mirage 2004

The sun glanced off the metal of swords and I muskets, the brass studding of targes-and off the red-gold of Jamie's hair, flying in the breeze as he wiped a hand across his face, flushed and sweating from the exercise, laughing at one of Murtagh's deadpan remarks.

Dragonfly in Amber Gabaldon, Diana 1992

"Thirty cavalry up there wi 'Simon, then fifty wi' broadswords and targes-those will be the men from the local Watch-and then the cottars, wi 'everything from scythes to hammers at their belts, and there's ninety of those."

Dragonfly in Amber Gabaldon, Diana 1992