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Definition of Arbalest

1. Noun. An engine that provided medieval artillery used during sieges; a heavy war engine for hurling large stones and other missiles.

Definition of Arbalest

1. n. A crossbow, consisting of a steel bow set in a shaft of wood, furnished with a string and a trigger, and a mechanical device for bending the bow. It served to throw arrows, darts, bullets, etc.

Definition of Arbalest

1. Noun. A late form of medieval crossbow, having a steel prod, or bow. ¹

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Definition of Arbalest

1. a type of crossbow [n -S] - See also: crossbow

Lexicographical Neighbors of Arbalest

Literary usage of Arbalest

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Writing of English by John Matthews Manly, Edith Rickert (1920)
"arbalest that when we first think of weapon we may get an image extremely unlike the kind of weapon that an arbalest really is. To define more closely, ..."

2. The Penny Cyclopædia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain), George Long (1834)
"There can be little doubt but that the arbalest was introduced by the Normans at their first arrival. We have no mention whatever of it in anv writer or ..."

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