spontoon

Example Sentences

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I felt a momentary solace in hearing him order one of his men to follow with the armchair, where my spontoon was still concealed.

From The True Story Book by Lang, Andrew

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

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

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

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