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Definition of Arbalist
1. Noun. An engine that provided medieval artillery used during sieges; a heavy war engine for hurling large stones and other missiles.
Generic synonyms: Engine
Derivative terms: Catapult, Catapultian, Catapultic
Definition of Arbalist
1. Noun. (alternative form of arbalest) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Arbalist
1. arbalest [n -S] - See also: arbalest
Medical Definition of Arbalist
1. A crossbow, consisting of a steel bow set in a shaft of wood, furnished with a string and a trigger, and a mechanical device for bending the bow. It served to throw arrows, darts, bullets, etc. Alternative forms: arbalet and arblast. Origin: OF. Arbaleste, LL. Arbalista, for L. Arcuballista; arcus bow + ballista a military engine. See Ballista. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Arbalist
Literary usage of Arbalist
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1889)
"An implement for bending the stiff bow of the medieval arbalist, consisting of a
... A cross- bowman who carried the large arbalist worked by means of the ..."
2. Court Life Under the Plantagenets: (reign of Henry the Second) by Hubert Hall (1890)
"When he saw his serjeants die and gain no vantage, he was grieved at heart, and
said in his distress, ‘Send for the arbalist quickly to the stockade. ..."
3. Southey's Common-place Book by Robert Southey (1876)
"For the arbalist, like gunpowder, was a leveller. It required no strength ; little
skill sufficed for using it, and much practice was not necessary. ..."
4. The Flowers of History, Especially Such as Relate to the Affairs of Britain by Matthew Paris (1853)
"... on the twenty-sixth of March, by an arrow from an arbalist, and, as the wound
was unskilfully managed, he began to feel the danger of approaching death. ..."
5. Antiquary: A Magazine Devoted to the Study of the Past by Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson (1885)
"The Normans especially excelled with the arbalist or "crossbow," an invention,
says Sir SR Meyrick, of the Roman Empire in the Easi, and suggested by the ..."
6. The Poetical Works of Howitt, Milman, and Keats by Mary Botham Howitt, Henry Hart Milman, John Keats (1853)
"The Castle drawbridge hung aloof, arm'd men Paced the stem ramparts, javelins
look'd out, Fmm embrasure and loop-hole arbalist And ..."
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