Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A medieval missile launcher designed on the principle of the crossbow.
from The Century Dictionary.
- See arbalist, arbalister.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Antiq.) A crossbow, consisting of a steel bow set in a shaft of wood, furnished with a string and a trigger, and a mechanical device for bending the bow. It served to throw arrows, darts, bullets, etc.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A late form of medieval
crossbow , having a steelprod , or bow.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an engine that provided medieval artillery used during sieges; a heavy war engine for hurling large stones and other missiles
Etymologies
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Examples
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Owena-da’s first design was what O’Brien had called an "arbalest" but looked to Sisko like a crossbow, a "steel" archer’s bow mounted on a shaft, with a trigger to loosen the string.
REBELS: THE LIBERATED, BOOK III OF III DAFYDD AB HUGH 2008
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Owena-da’s first design was what O’Brien had called an "arbalest" but looked to Sisko like a crossbow, a "steel" archer’s bow mounted on a shaft, with a trigger to loosen the string.
REBELS: THE LIBERATED, BOOK III OF III DAFYDD AB HUGH 2008
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March 9, 2010, 9: 03 pm jukeboxgrad says: arbalest:
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March 10, 2010, 3: 44 am jukeboxgrad says: arbalest:
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March 11, 2010, 2: 04 am jukeboxgrad says: arbalest:
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March 12, 2010, 10: 58 pm jukeboxgrad says: arbalest: you are evading my question following the quotes at the beginning of my 11: 14PM post.
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No mean shot with an arbalest, the queen uses the Star of Khorala to summon aid, allowing Conan, the Guard Captain and herself freedom.
Archive 2007-02-01 Blue Tyson 2007
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No mean shot with an arbalest, the queen uses the Star of Khorala to summon aid, allowing Conan, the Guard Captain and herself freedom.
Archive 2007-02-01 Blue Tyson 2007
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Its thick sides are capable of stopping all projectiles from arbalest * and petard * type weapons systems, something sadly lacking in our mismanaged Canadian Armed Forces, suffering under the brutal heteronormative rule of the Harperites.
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oroboros commented on the word arbalest
a crossbow. see arblaster
December 28, 2006
chained_bear commented on the word arbalest
See also arbalist, arbalestier.
October 11, 2008