spontoon
Example Sentences
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He had just reached a spot where, by the assistance of his spontoon, he could stand with tolerable safety, when he heard a voice behind him cry out, “Good God, captain, what shall I do?”
From With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 1 by Various
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
Upon this the two young men came running out; one caught up a partisan from the rack which stood there, the other seized the spontoon of his father.
From Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini by Symonds, John Addington
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.
Then I said: “O Pagolo, my son, did the spontoon then pierce through your armour?”
From Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini by Symonds, John Addington
