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Meanings of arbalest in English
Usage of arbalest in English
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.
6
Call Hugh of the Mill, and Woodman Wat, and Raoul with his arbalest and bolts.
7
He was holding something -a huge arbalest that was balanced on the second-storeyrailing.
8
He looked, and there was poor Denys sinking, sinking, weighed down by his wretched arbalest.
9
Ral grinned through his gory mask as the sword shot forth like a bolt from an arbalest.
10
On an arbalest quarrel, stupid!
11
He then lay down beside him, with one hand on his arbalest, and drew the bear-skin over them, hair inward.
12
Though now I carry but an arbalest, the gun is my mistress, and my patron is the gunner's saint, St. Barbara.
13
And hark ye, by the way, unwind the arbalest before you cross; it is ever well to be on the safe side.
14
And now he closed the door, and, going to the window, which was little more than an arrow-slit, he shouldered his arbalest.
15
Through an arrow-slit he had watched him take down and examine an arbalest, place it on the table and sit down to write.
16
I would even go further, and say that I have done things with my arbalest which no Englishman could do with his long-bow.
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Frequent collocations
Arbalest through the time