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- noun Plural form of
halberd .
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Examples
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Also, in the case of the halberds, the great rarity of any specimens of bronze blades which can be classified as halberds indicates that the form of implement practically ceased to be used when bronze came into use in Ireland.
The Bronze Age in Ireland George Coffey 1886
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In a few cases there may possibly be a doubt as to whether they should be classified as halberds or primitive daggers.
The Bronze Age in Ireland George Coffey 1886
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The guards move ahead and behind me, the blades of their halberds gleaming.
Secret History of Elizabeth Tudor, Vampire Slayer Lucy Weston 2011
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In Germany, people dueled with pikes and halberds.
When What We Think We Know, Is Actually Wrong at SF Novelists 2009
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The narrow streets from the Whitehall water steps to the Abbey are packed so tightly that I wonder how anyone can breathe, the crowd held in check by yeoman guards holding steel-edged halberds at the ready.
Secret History of Elizabeth Tudor, Vampire Slayer Lucy Weston 2011
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But this time your own children are ravaging and afflicting you … by murdering and strangling each other within your bosom, without any mercy whatsoever, with enormous swords, fully drawn, with pistols and with halberds.75
Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011
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FWIW, halberds and other polearms were one of the standard weapons issued to city guards in the later medieval and Renaissance eras.
When What We Think We Know, Is Actually Wrong at SF Novelists 2009
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The guards move ahead and behind me, the blades of their halberds gleaming.
Secret History of Elizabeth Tudor, Vampire Slayer Lucy Weston 2011
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But this time your own children are ravaging and afflicting you … by murdering and strangling each other within your bosom, without any mercy whatsoever, with enormous swords, fully drawn, with pistols and with halberds.75
Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011
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The narrow streets from the Whitehall water steps to the Abbey are packed so tightly that I wonder how anyone can breathe, the crowd held in check by yeoman guards holding steel-edged halberds at the ready.
Secret History of Elizabeth Tudor, Vampire Slayer Lucy Weston 2011
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