Usage examples (11)

• Betwixt the third couple of towers were the butts for arquebus, crossbow, and arbalist.
• Another name for the crossbow was 'arbalist,' and its arrows were called quarils, or bolts.
• Let us at least go back, fill up once more, and raise a mantelet against the bolts, for they have an arbalist which shoots both straight and hard.
• In the rencounters to which I am going -- the sorties, the assaults, the duels single and in force, the exchanges with all arms, bow, arbalist, guns small and great, the...