spontoon
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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 nobility, it was said, were the nursery for the spontoon.
From Pictures of German Life in the XVIIIth and XIXth Centuries, Vol. II. by Gustav Freytag
Then I said: “O Pagolo, my son, did the spontoon then pierce through your armour?”
From Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini by John Addington Symonds
The officers, I remember, carried what was formerly used in our service, a long sort of pole, with a head like a halberd, and called, I believe, a "spontoon."
From Twenty-Five Years in the Rifle Brigade by William Surtees
"There is nothing in it," replied Goldsmith, starting up with impatience, "give me a spontoon; I can do it as well myself."
From Dr. Johnson's Works: Life, Poems, and Tales, Volume 1 The Works of Samuel Johnson, Ll.D., in Nine Volumes by Samuel Johnson
