单词 | angon |
释义 | angonn. European History. A type of iron spear with a double barb, used by the Franks, Anglo-Saxons, and other Germanic peoples. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > sharp weapon > spear or lance > [noun] > barbed spear crooka1500 partisan1542 pheona1618 harpoon1625 angon1683 jag-spear1864 1683 J. Bulteel tr. F. E. de Mézeray Gen. Chronol. Hist. France i. 17 The Angon..was a Dart of moderate length, having an Iron bearded Head, and cheeks of Iron. 1778 Mil. Dict. Angon, a kind of javelin used by the French, who can dart it a considerable distance. 1869 Archaeologia 42 344 It will..be seen from this account that the Frankish angon was a kind of cross between the legitimate old classical pilum and the later spiculum of Vegetius. 1940 Antiquity 14 14 Through one of the drop-handles of the outer bowl the shafts of three iron angons had been thrust. 1993 M. Harrison Anglo-Saxon Thegn 15/2 The broad-bladed spear type was far more common than the angon. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2019; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1683 |
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