An engine that provided medieval artillery used during sieges; a heavy war engine for hurling large stones and other missiles.
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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