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- noun historical A type of
halberd used by mediaeval foot-soldiers.
Etymologies
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Examples
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“I am just now like the half-pike, or spontoon of Achilles, one end of which could wound and the other cure — a property belonging neither to Spanish pike, brown-bill, partizan, halberd, Lochaber-axe, or indeed any other modern staff-weapon whatever.”
A Legend of Montrose 2008
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The sentinel who was stationed there, armed with a brown-bill, or species of partisan, reported that he had heard no motion in the apartment during the whole night.
Castle Dangerous 2008
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He is fitter to do the juggling tricks of the Norman chivalry than to maintain the fame and honour of his English ancestry with the glaive and brown-bill, the good old weapons of his country. ''
Ivanhoe 1892
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` ` I am just now like the half-pike, or spontoon of Achilles, one end of which could wound, and the other cure --- a property belonging neither to Spanish pike, brown-bill, partizan, halberd,
A Legend of Montrose 1871
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The sentinel who was stationed there, armed with a brown-bill, or species of partisan, reported that he had heard no motion in the apartment during the whole night.
Waverley Novels — Volume 12 Walter Scott 1801
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= brown-bill =: a weapon consisting of a long staff with a hook-shaped blade at the top.
The Literary World Seventh Reader Hetty Sibyl Browne 1907
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He is fitter to do the juggling tricks of the Norman chivalry than to maintain the fame and honour of his English ancestry with the glaive and brown-bill, the good old weapons of his country.”
Ivanhoe 2004
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English ancestry with the [v] glaive and [v] brown-bill, the good old weapons of the country. "
The Literary World Seventh Reader Hetty Sibyl Browne 1907
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He is fitter to do the juggling tricks of the Norman chivalry than to maintain the fame and honour of his English ancestry with the glaive and brown-bill, the good old weapons of his country. "
Ivanhoe. A Romance 1819
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He is fitter to do the juggling tricks of the Norman chivalry than to maintain the fame and honour of his English ancestry with the glaive and brown-bill, the good old weapons of his country. "
Ivanhoe Walter Scott 1801
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