balister
English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Old French balestre. See ballista.
Noun edit
balister (plural balisters)
- (obsolete) A crossbow.
- 1688, Gabriel Dellon, The History of the Inquisition as it is Exercised at Goa:
- From thence to the door of the Church was made a Gallery about three foot broad, with a Balister on each side, and both on one side, and the other were placed Benches for the Criminals and their Godfathers to sit on
- (obsolete) An arbalister or crossbowman.
- 1642, Thomas Goodwin, Romanae historiae anthologia recognita et aucta:
- standeth the cunning Balister
References edit
- “balister”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.