NOUN
- an engine that provided medieval artillery used during sieges; a heavy war engine for hurling large stones and other missiles
How To Use arbalest In A Sentence
- That gave us the time to move arbalests and mangonels into position along the walls.
- Pg 354: arbalaster is probably a variation of arbalester or arbalister: a cross-bowman. The Poetical Works of William Lisle Bowles, Vol. 1 With Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes by George Gilfillan
- Owena-da’s first design was what O’Brien had called an "arbalest" but looked to Sisko like a crossbow, a "steel" archer’s bow mounted on a shaft, with a trigger to loosen the string. REBELS: THE LIBERATED, BOOK III OF III
- Bahzell unloaded the arbalest and released the string with a snap while he waded through the grass.
- However he saw several light arbalests being set up, aimed at the tower.
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- The only things that were in decent repair were the few arbalest and catapults, mainly maintained, I suspected, for show.
- His blade snapped out of its scabbard, and the first group of bowmen, arbalests exchanged for swords and axes, leapt back up onto the step their fellows had abandoned.
- Pg 354: arbalaster is probably a variation of arbalester or arbalister: a cross-bowman. The Poetical Works of William Lisle Bowles, Vol. 1 With Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes by George Gilfillan
- There was a shout of triumph as the carpenters struggling with the recalcitrant arbalest finally managed to string the bow.
