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Definition of the day : « arbalest »
- As in weapon : noun arm, armament
- As in catapult : noun implement for shooting weapon
- To my mind the long-bow is a better weapon than the arbalest, but it may be ill for me to prove it.
- Extract from : « The White Company » by Arthur Conan Doyle
- Holding the arbalest with one hand, Daoud vaulted into the saddle.
- Extract from : « The Saracen: Land of the Infidel » by Robert Shea
- The form of the arbalest of this time may be seen in our woodcut, No. 50.
- Extract from : « Ancient Armour and Weapons in Europe » by John Hewitt
- On this bird, I deemed, he meant to try his skill with the arbalest.
- Extract from : « A Monk of Fife » by Andrew Lang
- The arbalest is said by some writers to be of Italian origin.
- Extract from : « The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction » by Various
- The arrow of the arbalest is sometimes called vireton, from the French virer, on account of its rotary flight.
- Extract from : « Ancient Armour and Weapons in Europe » by John Hewitt
- This distinctive form of the arbalest shaft is carefully kept in view in the illumination from Add.
- Extract from : « Ancient Armour and Weapons in Europe » by John Hewitt
- He then lay down beside him, with one hand on his arbalest, and drew the bear-skin over them, hair inward.
- Extract from : « The Cloister and the Hearth » by Charles Reade
- The cross-bow, or arbalest, does not appear to have been used in war until the close of the twelfth century.
- Extract from : « Scenes and Characters of the Middle Ages » by Edward Lewes Cutts
- Daoud chose the bigger one, a Genoese arbalest drawn by crank, a present from King Manfred.
- Extract from : « The Saracen: Land of the Infidel » by Robert Shea