arblast
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editFrom Old French arbaleste (modern French arbalète), from Late Latin arcuballista, from Latin arcus (“bow”).
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editarblast (plural arblasts)
- (historical) A wooden crossbow with a special drawing mechanism, used to fire bolts, stones, etc.
- 1819 December 20 (indicated as 1820), Walter Scott, chapter XIV, in Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume II, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC, page 281:
- “ […] Here be two arblasts, comrade, with windlaces and quarrells—to the barbican with you, and see you drive each bolt through a Saxon brain.”
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