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单词 arbalestre
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arbalestrearbalesterarblastern.

Forms: Middle English alblastre, Middle English awblaster, ablauster, arbalestre, arbalester, arbelater, Middle English–1600s arblaster, 1500s alablaster, aublestere, arblestre, arbalaster.
Etymology: < Anglo-Norman alblastre, albrastre, Old French arbalestre (also arbelestre , arblastre , arbastre ) < Latin arcuballistra , variant of arcuballista : see arbalest n. In French partly, in English greatly, confused in form with arbalester n.
Obsolete.
1. = arbalest n.
ΘΚΠ
society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > archer's weapons > [noun] > bow > crossbow
arbalesta1100
arbalestrea1387
crossbow1432
pellock bow1537
latch1547
piece1590
stock-bow1598
steel bow1607
balister1679
arcubalist1774
oblest1780
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. Rolls Ser. 297 Þe men..vseþ balles and alblastres [L. arcubalistis].
c1400 Rom. Rose 4196 Of arblasters grete plente were.
1485 W. Caxton tr. Thystorye & Lyf Charles the Grete sig. eviijv/2 A quarel out of an arbalastre.
c1500 Lyfe Roberte Deuyll 990 in W. C. Hazlitt Remains Early Pop. Poetry Eng. (1864) I. 257 With arbelaters they shot many a quarell.
1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VI f. ciijv The shot of the alablasters & cross bowes.
2. The missile shot from the arbalest.
ΘΚΠ
society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > missile > crossbow bolt > [noun]
bolta1000
quarrela1250
arbalestrec1300
vire1390
matrassc1450
viretonc1500
matrass1591
quarry1600
cross-arrow1619
c1300 K. Alis. 1211 With alblastres and with stones They slowe men.
a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. ccxxxv. f. clviiv Many an Arblaster, & stone was shot & caste.
c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy xiv. 5707 Of arowes & awblasters þe aire wex thicke.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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