spontoon

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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

Johnson and sir Joshua talked with pleasure of what they had seen; and, says Johnson, in a tone of admiration: "How the little fellow brandished his spontoon!"

From Dr. Johnson's Works: Life, Poems, and Tales, Volume 1 The Works of Samuel Johnson, Ll.D., in Nine Volumes by Johnson, Samuel

Amidst a storm of iron hail Jasper leaped from one of the embrasures, recovered the flag, mounted it on his spontoon staff and unfurled it to the breeze.

From Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution by Judson, L. Carroll

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

One weighed tentatively that delicate weapon, a spontoon; a second stroked his halberd, as liking to feel the smoothness of the shaft, while a third reached for a gleaming "Folard's Partizan."

From The Lady of the Mount by Isham, Frederic Stewart