spontoon

Example Sentences

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When Balbi wrote that his walls were hung with pictures of saints, it became a question of conveying the spontoon to him.

From The Historical Nights' Entertainment First Series by Sabatini, Rafael

With his spontoon he tested the timbers, and found them so decayed that they almost crumbled at the touch.

From The Historical Nights' Entertainment First Series by Sabatini, Rafael

In a collection at the Douglas House, in Houghton, Portage Lake, are ornaments of this kind, and also some spear-heads, nicely wrought and similar in shape and size to the blade of a spontoon.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 89, March, 1865 by Various

Casanova went first, on all fours, and thrusting the point of his spontoon between the joints of the lead sheeting so as to obtain a hold, he crawled slowly upwards.

From The Historical Nights' Entertainment First Series by Sabatini, Rafael

Seest thou not how many a sergeant grows grey with his spontoon that deserved to have a company before many others.

From The Adventurous Simplicissimus being the description of the Life of a Strange vagabond named Melchior Sternfels von Fuchshaim by Grimmelshausen, Hans Jacob Christoph von