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Meanings of arbalist in anglès
Person who shoots a crossbow.
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Examples for "catapult"
Examples for "catapult"
1
Sometimes good ideas can immediately catapult a company into the big leagues.
2
The word smote on the captive like the missile of a catapult.
3
The deal, if successfully concluded, should catapult Galen into the international league.
4
The catapult master ordered the second firer to take up the tension.
5
That seat was mounted on parallel catapult tubes measuring 42 inches long.
1
A ballista bolt had pierced the reaver's back, and stuck there still.
2
The dwarves were cranking the ballista so tight it shrieked in protest.
3
He could hear the ballista men on the wall cranking their engine back.
4
Richeut stepped in front of Kedle's ballista to block her aim.
5
The javelin hurtled through the flames faster than any ballista dart.
1
Closer, Temper saw that the weapon was an ancient cranequin-loading siege arbalest.
2
Seal dropped the arbalest on a table and knelt beside Coop.
3
Now get down there and use that arbalest to blow them to Hood.'
4
But no arbalest was pointed thence, and the fight flagged.
5
On this bird, I deemed, he meant to try his skill with the arbalest.
1
At that moment Pencroft stopped the onager, and in a hoarse voice,-
2
Image: Persian onager foal born Sept. 7 at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute.
3
We then loaded the onager with the acorns and moved homewards.
4
We then loaded the onager with the acorns, and moved homeward.
5
The wild ass and onager roamed in small herds between the Balikh and the Tigris.
1
The trebuchet was another war machine used extensively during the Middle Ages.
2
My son had to build a trebuchet for a school science project.
3
The trebuchet was used during medieval times to break down fortifications.
4
He released the last chord like a boulder off a trebuchet.
5
Last game he had brought her out too soon and lost her to a trebuchet.
1
The Norman hath a mangonel or a trabuch upon the forecastle.
2
Say what one will, they are a mammillary people politically, and the strongest party in the Reichstag is merely an energetic political mangonel.
3
The Danes had provided themselves with large numbers of mangonels and catapults.
4
The Attack of Saianfu (with a Cannon, a Mangonel, and a Crossbow).
5
And the barons for their part made ready their petraries and mangonels on land.
Usage of arbalist in anglès
1
Look at yon arbalist; sure Brutus himself used such an one!
2
Now and again a twig would snap and fly like a bolt from an arbalist.
3
In the meantime here is Wat with his arbalist and a bolt in his girdle.
4
Another name for the crossbow was 'arbalist,' and its arrows were called quarils, or bolts.
5
He heard thee tell Gosse, Falworth, that thou wert going thither for thy arbalist this morn to shoot at the rooks withal.