spontoon
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Using as a whetstone a small slab of black marble, similarly acquired, he had shaped that bolt into a sharp octagonal-pointed chisel or spontoon.
From The Historical Nights' Entertainment First Series by Rafael Sabatini
Recovered, he took up his spontoon, which he had placed in the gutter, and, assisted by it, he climbed back to the dormer.
From The Historical Nights' Entertainment First Series by Rafael Sabatini
The broad lance subsisted till lately in the halberd; the spear and framea in the long pike and spontoon; the missile weapons in the war hatchet, or North American tomahawk.
From The Germany and the Agricola of Tacitus by Cornelius Tacitus
Figure 4 shows an Austrian officers' spontoon, used about the seventeenth century.
From The Boy Mechanic: Volume 1 700 Things for Boys to Do by Popular Mechanics Co.
My mercer had his spontoon in his hand, as if he measured his cloth by that implement, instead of a legitimate yard.
From The Antiquary — Volume 01 by Sir Walter Scott
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