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Definition of Arbalists
1. arbalist [n] - See also: arbalist
Lexicographical Neighbors of Arbalists
Literary usage of Arbalists
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Flowers of History, Especially Such as Relate to the Affairs of Britain by Matthew Paris (1853)
"Then the arbalists are bent, machines are erected, engines for hurling stones
are built. ... attacking them with terrible arrows from their arbalists, ..."
2. Chivalry by Léon Gautier (1891)
"By what means were the arrows launched from the arbalists ? Through the loopholes
in the merlon. The archers on the ramparts defended the curtains with ..."
3. The Life of Saladin by Claude Reignier Conder (1897)
"They brought with them mangonels, movable towers, arbalists, besieging engines,1
and other machines.2 The Franks in Syria, when they heard this news, ..."
4. The New England Historical and Genealogical Register (1873)
"Five or six equally fine specimens of arbalists, the steel crossbows of which
were so powerful, that they had to be drawn back with a winch attached to the ..."
5. Works Issued by the Hakluyt Society by Hakluyt Society (1847)
"hundred cuirasses, a hundred arquebuses, a hundred arbalists, and many other
articles of defensive armour, should be sent over to us; for we have great ..."
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