Noun: arbalest
| Singular | arbalest |
| Plural | arbalests |
Sample Sentences
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He excelled with the arbalest steel crossbow, winning the nickname the Arbalestier and joined Bahriyya regiment, the crack soldiers who defeated the Crusaders and became known as the Turkish Lions and the Islamic Templars. [2011, Simon Sebag Montefiore, Jerusalem: The Biography – A History of the Middle East, page 329:]
Nouns inflected like arbalest
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English arblast, from Old French arbaleste (modern arbalète), from Late Latin arcuballista, from Latin arcus + ballista. See: Middle English Nouns '
arblast', Latin Nouns '
arcus'.
Verbs referencing "arbalest"
German Nouns
Armbrust, Swedish Nouns
armborst.