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Arbalest   Listen
noun
Arbalist, Arbalest  n.  (Written also arbalet and arblast)  (Antiq.) 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.






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... was as keen and bright as an editor's knife?' And with chastened melancholy I will respond: 'Yes, George, it is true. And moreover I was with him on the day when his mind commenced to give way. The day he offered me a full half of the spoils of my own—what do you call it?—oh, yes, arbalest.'" ...
— White Ashes • Sidney R. Kennedy and Alden C. Noble



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