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Definition of Halberts
1. halbert [n] - See also: halbert
Lexicographical Neighbors of Halberts
Literary usage of Halberts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A plan of discipline, composed for the use of the militia of the county of by William Windham, George Townshend Townshend (1759)
"... are to order their halberts. When the officers carry their ... are to carry
their halberts clubbed. ..."
2. An Alphabetical Dictionary of Coats of Arms Belonging to Families in Great by John Woody Papworth (1874)
"Mullet Gu. two halberts over all a fess chequy .... and.... in chief a mullet .
... V. 2 AXES betw. or within Arrows Arg. two halberts addorsed gu. in the ..."
3. Dictionary of Obsolete and Provincial English: Containing Words from the by Thomas Wright (1904)
"... with brown bills, halberts, and mor- rice pita. Reynard's Deliv. Of the French
were beaten down ..."
4. Eminent British Statesmen by James Mackintosh, John Forster, John Macdiarmid, Thomas Peregrine Courtenay (1831)
"were about him with halberts and bills, she hastily ran to him, and openly, in
sight of them all, embraced and kissed him. He gave her again his fatherly ..."
5. Bristol Past and Present by James Fawckner Nicholls, John Taylor (1882)
"... in which house he continued till the clock had struck twelve at noon, when by
divers on foot with halberts he was guarded to the pillory, where when he ..."
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