arblast

Etymology

From Old French arbaleste (modern French arbalète), from Late Latin arcuballista, from arcus (“bow”).

noun

  1. (obsolete except historical) A wooden crossbow with a special drawing mechanism, used to fire bolts, stones etc.
    Here be two arblasts, comrades, with windlaces and quarrells — to the barbican with you, and see you drive each bolt through a Saxon brain. 1819, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe

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