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Definition of Spontoons
1. spontoon [n] - See also: spontoon
Lexicographical Neighbors of Spontoons
Literary usage of Spontoons
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Paris and Environs with Routes from London to Paris: Handbook for Travellers by Karl Baedeker, Karl Baedeker (Firm) (1900)
"spontoons (K 596, 697). Also steel weapons and panoplies. — A Boom on the Bight
contains numerous ... spontoons (567, etc.) ; 22. Battle-hammer (15th cent. ..."
2. Papers Illustrating the History of the Scots Brigade in the Service of the by James Ferguson, John Scot (1899)
"... that the regiments should be put into the Dutch uniform, that the officers
should provide themselves with orange sashes and Dutch gorgets and spontoons, ..."
3. The British Army: Its Origin, Progress, and Equipment by Sibbald David Scott (1868)
"(3) The officers of the Fusilier regiments never carried spontoons, as the others
did, ... (+) A group of spontoons is represented on Plate VI., ..."
4. Explorations Into the World of Lewis and Clark: 194 Essays from the Pages of ...by Robert A. Saindon by Robert A. Saindon (2003)
"... George favorite dance music:792 insists on the use of spontoons:563 ...
Clark serves under:658 insists on spontoons:563 Lewis serves under: 681 Wayne, ..."
5. Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1876)
"... barbaric pearl and gold, like the spontoons and standards of the militia,
which play such pranks in the eyes and imaginations of school-boys. ..."
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