Pole weapon with axe blade topped with a spike.
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Examples for "halberd "
Examples for "halberd "
1 The new halberdier drops his halberd , and it falls on the cigar-case.
2 He'd somewhere found a great halberd , which he swung, beheading a Stormguard.
3 One in an antique costume, and bearing a halberd , acted as marshal.
4 We swung round the corner eastwards, Wilson running first, brandishing the halberd -
5 They cut me with a halberd from which I have a scar.
1 Before signing, Mr Ernest Halbard Melton took out the paper and verified it.
2 Guards in traditional yellow or red and white pantaloons, with halbards and plumes.
3 Ernest Roger Halbard Melton, son of the above.
4 Ernest Halbard Melton, J.P, nephew of the testator.
5 Mr. Ernest Roger Halbard Melton, of Humcroft, Salop, little knows how near he was to being "cleft to the chine" also.
1 John Plessington, his sergeant, avenged him by running Erinetta through with his halbert .
2 A giant bearing a halbert , accompanied by two youths in tunics, completed the group.
3 His arms were the halbert , axe, or spear, a crossbow, a dagger, or a sword.
4 Charge through them, my bullies; a halbert to the hero who shall reach his heart!
5 A fort very commodiously guarded; only requiring one sentinel with his halbert - painted on the door!
6 They had small three-cornered hats, surmounted with plumes; and each bore in his hand a halbert .
7 This miscreant struck at her with his halbert .
8 We do not wish the news to get abroad, so take your halbert and march up and down.
9 Two of the Duchy tenants carrying the halbert and spetum as they used to appear when the market proclamation was read.
10 He did cast the dart, throw the bar, put the stone, practise the javelin, the boar-spear or partisan, and the halbert .
11 He did cast the dart, throw the bar, put the stone, practise the javelin, the boar-spear or partizan, and the halbert .
12 A man struck at them with a halbert , but the blow fell short, for he was afraid to come too near.
13 Devereux himself, with a halbert in his hand, rushed up to Wallenstein, and cried, "Villain, you are to die!"
14 The gateway was guarded by a stalwart yeoman, halbert in hand, who detained him while the officer of the guard was called.
15 These were her last words as she was pushed over the bank, and, like her companion, forcibly held, down with a halbert .
16 Then the keepers entered with a species of halbert , with half-moon shaped steels at the head, and one small spike in the midst.
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