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Meanings of arbalest in inglês
Sinônimos
Examples for "catapult"
Examples for "catapult"
1
Sometimes good ideas can immediately catapult a company into the big leagues.
2
The word smote on the captive like the missile of a catapult.
3
The deal, if successfully concluded, should catapult Galen into the international league.
4
The catapult master ordered the second firer to take up the tension.
5
That seat was mounted on parallel catapult tubes measuring 42 inches long.
1
A ballista bolt had pierced the reaver's back, and stuck there still.
2
The dwarves were cranking the ballista so tight it shrieked in protest.
3
He could hear the ballista men on the wall cranking their engine back.
4
Richeut stepped in front of Kedle's ballista to block her aim.
5
The javelin hurtled through the flames faster than any ballista dart.
1
At that moment Pencroft stopped the onager, and in a hoarse voice,-
2
Image: Persian onager foal born Sept. 7 at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute.
3
We then loaded the onager with the acorns and moved homewards.
4
We then loaded the onager with the acorns, and moved homeward.
5
The wild ass and onager roamed in small herds between the Balikh and the Tigris.
1
The trebuchet was another war machine used extensively during the Middle Ages.
2
My son had to build a trebuchet for a school science project.
3
The trebuchet was used during medieval times to break down fortifications.
4
He released the last chord like a boulder off a trebuchet.
5
Last game he had brought her out too soon and lost her to a trebuchet.
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
The Norman hath a mangonel or a trabuch upon the forecastle.
2
Say what one will, they are a mammillary people politically, and the strongest party in the Reichstag is merely an energetic political mangonel.
3
The Danes had provided themselves with large numbers of mangonels and catapults.
4
The Attack of Saianfu (with a Cannon, a Mangonel, and a Crossbow).
5
And the barons for their part made ready their petraries and mangonels on land.
Usage of arbalest in inglês
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