Definition of "arblast" []

• A wooden crossbow with a special drawing mechanism, used to fire bolts, stones etc. (noun)

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• "* The arblast was a cross-bow, the windlace the machine"
• "33 The arblast was a cross-bow, the windlace the machine used in bending that weapon, and the quarrell, so called from its square or diamond-shaped head, was the bolt adapted to it."
• "-- - Here be two arblasts, comrades, with windlaces and quarrells The arblast was a cross-bow, the windlace the machine used in bending that weapon, and the quarrell, so called from its square or diamond-shaped head, was the bolt adapted to it. -- - to the barbican with you, and see you drive each bolt through a Saxon brain. ""