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Arbalist

noun
(Written also arbalet and arblast)
1.
An engine that provided medieval artillery used during sieges; a heavy war engine for hurling large stones and other missiles.  Synonyms: arbalest, ballista, bricole, catapult, mangonel, onager, trebuchet, trebucket.






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"Arbalist" Quotes from Famous Books



... other, determined on scouring the woods in search of fugitives, the horses of the king and his immediate followers were urged to quicken their pace, when an iron-headed quarrel, discharged from an arbalist, struck the royal charger, which, with a shrill cry of death, dropped instantly, and again was the king unhorsed. The delay occasioned in extricating him from the fallen animal was dangerous in the extreme; the greater part of his men were at some distance, for the king had ordered them, ...
— The Days of Bruce Vol 1 - A Story from Scottish History • Grace Aguilar



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