单词 | arbalist |
例句 | Coming to much more recent times, we find the Swiss famous as archers, but they generally used the arbalist or cross-bow, and were no match for their English rivals, who preferred the long-bow. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 2 Amiel to Atrauli Betwixt the third couple of towers were the butts for arquebus, crossbow, and arbalist. The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VII (of X)—Continental Europe I Another name for the crossbow was 'arbalist,' and its arrows were called quarils, or bolts. Chatterbox, 1906 Let us at least go back, fill up once more, and raise a mantelet against the bolts, for they have an arbalist which shoots both straight and hard. Sir Nigel Now and again a twig would snap and fly like a bolt from an arbalist. Manalive So when the squadrons were arranged in the wedge, he stood himself behind the warriors, and from the wallet which was slung round his neck drew an arbalist. The Danish History, Books I-IX In the meantime here is Wat with his arbalist and a bolt in his girdle. Sir Nigel At the famous Battle of Cressy the English had about three thousand archers, mostly armed with long-bows; the French had arbalists, or crossbows, and, on the whole, they were less successful, as, again, at Agincourt. Chatterbox, 1906 |
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