Usage of "halberd" | TermGallery

Russian

алебарда

Portuguese

alabarda

Spanish

alabarda

Catalan

alabarda

Pole weapon with axe blade topped with a spike.

алебарда

Usage of halberd in English

The new halberdier drops his halberd, and it falls on the cigar-case. 
 Roads of Destiny 

He'd somewhere found a great halberd, which he swung, beheading a Stormguard. 
 Stonewielder 

One in an antique costume, and bearing a halberd, acted as marshal. 
 The Headsman; Or, The Abbaye des Vignerons 

We swung round the corner eastwards, Wilson running first, brandishing the halberd- 
 The Napoleon of Notting Hill 

They cut me with a halberd from which I have a scar. 
 The Knights of the Cross, or, Krzyzacy: Historical Romance 

The halberd slipped from Arnliot's hands, and she ran out with it. 
 Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway 

Jenny tightened her grip on her halberd and bolted for the woods. 
 Dragonshadow 

The halberd is the special arm of the Japanese woman of gentle blood. 
 Tales of Old Japan 

A Swiss halberd of the sixteenth century is shown in Fig. 
 The Boy Mechanic, Volume 1: 700 Things for Boys to Do 

Enter the MARSHAL, with a proclamation; and MERRY, with a halberd. 
 The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 

The soldier brought his halberd to a present-arms and said mockingly- 
 The Prince and the Pauper 

Root-leaves large, halberd-shaped, and supported on stems six inches in length. 
 The Field and Garden Vegetables of America / Containing Full Des... 

Then, dropping the halberd, he seized a spade, and began the first embankment. 
 The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 12 

An ensign-halyard-block is no more a pulley than your halberd is a boarding-pike. 
 The Pathfinder; Or, The Inland Sea 

He remained paralyzed, halberd drooping as the stampede of angry barbarians thundered closer. 
 Swipe 

Parts from several polearms, including bills, pikes, and a halberd, have been excavated. 
 New Discoveries at Jamestown / Site of the First Successful Engl... 