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