Crossword clues for arbalester
arbalester
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Arbalester \Ar"ba*lest`er\, Arbalister \Ar"ba*list`er\, n. [OF.
arblastere, OF. arbalestier. See Arbalest.]
A crossbowman. [Obs.]
--Speed.
Wiktionary
n. (alternative form of arbalister English)
Wikipedia
Arbalester is a scrolling shoot 'em up arcade game released by SETA in , licensed to Taito and Romstar. The player controls a fighter jet and shoots enemies in the air and on the ground, collects power-ups, and defeats bosses to advance levels.
Usage examples of "arbalester".
Oh, how useful to us on that day were our arbalesters and bowmen, who closed the extremities of the lines, and did their best to repel the obstinate Turks.
However, between the escorting Moulokinese and the accurate fire of arbalesters positioned on the huge raft's stern, no cable-carrying enemy soldier was able to close nearer than a dozen meters to the vulnerable steering skate.
We can have archers and arbalesters pick 'em off outside the gate, and can mass fifty soldiers behind the gate for every one who fights his way in.
And before the arbalesters could come within killing range, the arching shafts of the Bossonians were wreaking havoc in their ranks.
So while the arbalesters plied their bolts from either flank at long range, the pikemen marched into the teeth of the blast from above, and behind them the knights came on.
Bolts driven by the demoralized arbalesters glanced from their shields, their bent helmets.
The arrowstorm, applied from beyond the range of Breitbarth's arbalesters, broke up the infantry formations.
On confirmation, Sedlmayr sent Colonels Kiriakos and Phiambolos and six hundred skilled arbalesters to Vorgreberg, and raised levies to pacify Walsoken.
The four white-furred arbalesters leaped down from the crane fittings and raced toward a new firing position on the prow.