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Significats de arbalist en anglès

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Person who shoots a crossbow.

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        An engine that provided medieval artillery used during sieges; a heavy war engine for hurling large stones and other missiles.

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            Examples for "crossbowman"
            Examples for "crossbowman"
            1
            Nait ran into Honey, who was shaking a crossbowman by the shirt.
            Return of the Crimson Guard
            2
            The crossbowman at the front died instantly, thrust through with a lance.
            Act of will
            3
            The wounded crossbowman, screaming curses and clutching his ankle, he left alone.
            Assail
            4
            The crossbowman turned, shaking his head, then froze as he saw Kip.
            The black prism
            5
            The pay of a crossbowman in the reign of Edward II.
            Chatterbox, 1906
            1
            His surname, sometimes written Arblastier, is one of the many variants of arbalester, a cross-bowman.
            The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia, Volume 1 of 28
            2
            As it was hard to draw again, that added strength to the saying; but it arose from the deliberation with which a good cross-bowman aimed.
            Field and Hedgerow: Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies
            1
            In that second of time Hal Masters' string twanged and his long arrow sped through the arbalister's throat.
            Sir Nigel
            2
            Ranieri della Sassetta rode in at the head of 100 mounted arbalisters, and Francesco de Luna with a body of 50 arquebusiers.
            The Life of Cesare Borgia
            Ús de arbalist en anglès
            1
            Look at yon arbalist; sure Brutus himself used such an one!
            Men of Iron
            2
            Now and again a twig would snap and fly like a bolt from an arbalist.
            Manalive
            3
            In the meantime here is Wat with his arbalist and a bolt in his girdle.
            Sir Nigel
            4
            Another name for the crossbow was 'arbalist,' and its arrows were called quarils, or bolts.
            Chatterbox, 1906
            5
            He heard thee tell Gosse, Falworth, that thou wert going thither for thy arbalist this morn to shoot at the rooks withal.
            Men of Iron
            Translations for arbalist
            Arbalist a través del temps