A heavy war engine for hurling large stones

Usage examples of arbalist.

When old Paolo of Genoa had died they had been left with twenty-nine and Willem had promoted Alain of Arras from page to arbalist rather than take in an outsider.

He heard thee tell Gosse, Falworth, that thou wert going thither for thy arbalist this morn to shoot at the rooks withal.

Hugh Calveley returned with an arbalist, which he proceeded deliberately to arm in view of the crowd, and then placed a quarrel within it.

Made aware of what had happened by the cries of his terrified household, Sir John snatched up an arbalist, and rushed out into the park, accompanied by his eldest son.

Steward Peter had expected them to dislike their women being trained as home-front arbalists, but they had accepted the idea, though their jokes were unremitting.

Matilda was less naturally gifted but she had a ferocity which the best arbalists possessed, launching something of their own will at the target ahead of the bolt.

On every side I was banked by sandbag walls bristling with machine guns, arbalists, microwave beamers, and other assorted deathdealers.

Dust from dry-rotted fletchings filmed the floors, smeared by tracks left from Sethvir's pacing and other marks scoured by the arbalists and pitch barrels he had dragged to clear space between the close-stacked stores.