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Infantry officer's half-pike
Answer for the clue "Infantry officer's half-pike ", 8 letters:
spontoon
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Word definitions for spontoon in dictionaries
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
alt. A pointed weapon similar to a pike. n. A pointed weapon similar to a pike.
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
A spontoon, sometimes known by the variant spelling espontoon or as a half-pike , is a type of European pole-arm that came into being alongside the pike . The spontoon was in wide use by the mid 17th century, and it continued to be used until the mid to ...
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Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Spontoon \Spon*toon"\ (sp[o^]n*t[=oo]n"), n. [F. sponton, esponton, It. spontone, spuntone.] (Mil.) A kind of half-pike, or halberd, formerly borne by inferior officers of the British infantry, and used in giving signals to the soldiers.
Usage examples of spontoon.
When Balbi wrote that his walls were hung with pictures of saints, it became a question of conveying the spontoon to him.
He bade Lorenzo buy him an in-folio edition of the Bible which had just been published, and it was into the spine of this enormous tome that he packed the precious spontoon, and thus conveyed it to Balbi, who immediately got to work.
With his spontoon he tested the timbers, and found them so decayed that they almost crumbled at the touch.
Unable, single-handed, to raise one of the sheets, he called Balbi to his aid, and between them, assisted by the spontoon, which Casanova inserted between the edge of the sheet and the gutter, they at last succeeded in tearing away the rivets.
Casanova went first, on all fours, and thrusting the point of his spontoon between the joints of the lead sheeting so as to obtain a hold, he crawled slowly upwards.
Lying flat on his stomach, and hanging far over, so as to see what he was doing, he worked one point of his spontoon into the sash of the grating, and, levering outwards, he strained until at last it came away completely in his hands.
Having accomplished so much, he turned, and, using his spontoon as before, he crawled back to the summit of the roof, and made his way rapidly along this to the spot where he had left Balbi.
Recovered, he took up his spontoon, which he had placed in the gutter, and, assisted by it, he climbed back to the dormer.
It was locked, but the lock was a poor one that yielded to half a dozen blows of the spontoon, and they passed into a little room beyond which by an open door they came into a long gallery lined with pigeon-holes stuffed with parchments, which they conceived to be the archives.
Krupp works here, Doctors Muffage and Spontoon look anything but conspiratorial.
Ministry, Spontoon having been technically disqualified because of a strange hysterical stigma, shaped like the ace of spades and nearly the same color, which would appear on his left cheek at moments of high stress, accompanied by severe migraine.
Sergeant, though your father, and as good a man in his duties as ever wielded a spontoon, is not the great Lord Stair, or even the Duke of Marlborough.
Toledo, spontoon, battle-axe, pike or half-pike, morgenstiern, and halbert.
The leader carried a spontoon with a broad, filigreed blade as a rank insignia.
He was carrying a spontoon that he had picked up from a dead Connaught sergeant.