Betwixt the third couple of towers were the butts for arquebus, crossbow, and arbalist.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VII (of X)—Continental Europe I] Reference

Another name for the crossbow was 'arbalist,' and its arrows were called quarils, or bolts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chatterbox, 1906] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sir Nigel] Reference

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 mines and countermines -- you cannot stay out.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Prince of India — Volume 02] Reference

N. - spider; a. pertaining to spiders. araneiform, adj. shaped like a spider. araneology, n. study of spiders. adj. - like a spider's web; transparent; delicate. arbalest, arbalist.    From Wordnik.com.  [xml's Blinklist.com] Reference

Look at yon arbalist; sure Brutus himself used such an one! ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Men of Iron] Reference

He heard thee tell Gosse, Falworth, that thou wert going thither for thy arbalist this morn to shoot at the rooks withal. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Men of Iron] Reference

85 Their encounter was varied, and balanced by the contrast of arms and discipline; of the direct charge, and wheeling evolutions; of the couched lance, and the brandished javelin; of a weighty broadsword, and a crooked sabre; of cumbrous armor, and thin flowing robes; and of the long Tartar bow, and the arbalist or crossbow, a deadly weapon, yet unknown to the Orientals.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire] Reference

In the meantime here is Wat with his arbalist and.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sir Nigel] Reference

Dignity demanded that they should be distinct as the conservative Right and radical Left of a French Assembly, Convenient, this, for the orator; since thus his things of beauty, joys forever, he could waft, in dulcet tones, over to the ladies 'side, and his things of logic, tough morsels for life-long digestion, he could jerk, like bolts from an arbalist, over at the open mouths of gray gaffer and robust man.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 59, September, 1862] Reference

The desired goal was just attained, the foes were decreasing in numbers, for they were scattered some distance from each other, determined on scouring the woods in search of fugitives, the horses of the king and his immediate followers were urged to quicken their pace, when an iron-headed quarrel, discharged from an arbalist, struck the royal charger, which, with a shrill cry of death, dropped instantly, and again was the king unhorsed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Days of Bruce Vol 1 A Story from Scottish History] Reference