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Definition of Spontoon
1. n. A kind of half-pike, or halberd, formerly borne by inferior officers of the British infantry, and used in giving signals to the soldiers.
Definition of Spontoon
1. Noun. A pointed weapon similar to a pike. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Spontoon
1. a spear-like weapon [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Spontoon
Literary usage of Spontoon
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Reminiscences and Memorials of Men of the Revolution and Their Families by Artemas Bowers Muzzey (1882)
"I remember seeing his spontoon at my grandfather's old house. This weapon sometimes
called a half-pike, was used in France during the Revolution of 1789, ..."
2. History of English Literature by Hippolyte Taine (1880)
"Full soon I grew sick of my sanctified sot, The regiment at large for a husband
I got, From the gilded spontoon to the fife I was I asked no more but a ..."
3. The Complete Works of Sir Walter Scott: With a Biography, and His Last by Walter Scott (1833)
"I must send spontoon to see what she is about; he will find her out among the
old regimental connexions. To-morrow you must be indisposed, and keep your ..."
4. Waverley, Or Tis Sixty Years Since by Walter Scott (1880)
"and parted from him with great reluctance, upon the remonstrances of spontoon,
who, accustomed to submit to discipline was rigid in enforcing it. ..."
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