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Meanings of arbalister in English
Synonyms
Examples for "crossbowman"
Examples for "crossbowman"
1
Nait ran into Honey, who was shaking a crossbowman by the shirt.
2
The crossbowman at the front died instantly, thrust through with a lance.
3
The wounded crossbowman, screaming curses and clutching his ankle, he left alone.
4
The crossbowman turned, shaking his head, then froze as he saw Kip.
5
The pay of a crossbowman in the reign of Edward II.
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.
1
His surname, sometimes written Arblastier, is one of the many variants of arbalester, a cross-bowman.
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.
Usage of arbalister in English
1
In that second of time Hal Masters' string twanged and his long arrow sped through the arbalister's throat.
2
Ranieri della Sassetta rode in at the head of 100 mounted arbalisters, and Francesco de Luna with a body of 50 arquebusiers.
Arbalister through the time