pike-thrust

He groaned very feebly, as I raised him up; and there was the wound, a great savage one (whether from pike-thrust or musket-ball), gaping and welling in his right side, from which a piece seemed to be torn away.

Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004

There was Sir Jonathan Brandon, for instance, who ran his own nephew through the lungs in a duel fought in a paroxysm of Cencian jealousy; and afterwards shot his coachman dead upon the box through his coach-window, and finally died in Vienna, whither he had absconded, of a pike-thrust received from a sentry in a brawl.

Wylder's Hand 2003

The Puritan trooper had wrought havoc in the ancient glass, smashing it wherever a pike-thrust could reach; and modern piety has been almost as ruthless in erecting windows which are quite incredibly hideous.

The Cathedral Church of Canterbury [2nd ed.]. Hartley Withers 1908

Reuben had been felled by a bludgeon stroke, and would certainly have been slain but for the fine temper of Sir Jacob Clancing's breastplate, which had turned a fierce pike-thrust.

Micah Clarke His Statement as made to his three grandchildren Joseph, Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734 Arthur Conan Doyle 1894

He leaned back desperately to avoid the pike-thrust that must follow, with his eyes screwed tight and his lips mumbling.

Come Rack! Come Rope! Robert Hugh Benson 1892

Here, however, we were received so warmly that it was found utterly impossible to make good our footing, the men springing up only to fall back again into the boat wounded with pike-thrust, pistol-bullet, or cutlass-gash.

The Congo Rovers A Story of the Slave Squadron Harry Collingwood 1886

I most fervently hope that there will be no need for you to use them in that way; but should there be -- and one never knows; I may be bowled over and killed, or rendered helpless by a shot or a pike-thrust -- I implore you not to hesitate too long.

The First Mate The Story of a Strange Cruise Harry Collingwood 1886

His injuries were of a very serious nature, a cutlass-blow having cloven his right shoulder until it had nearly severed the arm from the body, and his right lung was penetrated by a pike-thrust.

Under the Meteor Flag Log of a Midshipman during the French Revolutionary War Harry Collingwood 1886

Don Diego de Cardenas, of the habit of Santiago, brother of the count of La Puebla de Llesena, has served ten years, six of them in the States of Flandes, on all the occasions that offered in his time, especially at the siege of Ostende for thirty months, where he was wounded by an arquebus-shot in the face and a pike-thrust in the arm.

The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 22 of 55 1625-29 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century. Edward Gaylord Bourne 1884

His most dangerous wound was a pike-thrust on the left side, which had penetrated his lungs.

Wulf the Saxon A Story of the Norman Conquest 1867