spontoon

Example Sentences

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Then I said: “O Pagolo, my son, did the spontoon then pierce through your armour?”

From Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini by Symonds, John Addington

Captain Lewis ran about eighty yards, but finding that the animal gained on him fast ... he turned short, plunged into the river about waist deep, and facing about presented the point of his spontoon.

From Explorers and Travellers by Greely, Adolphus W.

The point of the spontoon was as steel crusted o'er; the ax of the halberd might have come from a boucherie; the blade of the "Partizan" resembled a great leaf at autumn-time.

From The Lady of the Mount by Isham, Frederic Stewart

About thirty or forty men, each armed with a spontoon, a bow, and arrows, stood drawn up on a rising ground close by the village.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 16 by Kerr, Robert

Holding his spontoon ready, but concealed under his coat, he stepped to the side of the door.

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