What is "twoscore"

Usage examples of "twoscore".

Immediately, he scried a troop of more than twoscore mounted men, milling about a small, hooded rider who sat a horse much too large for him.

Behind Geros, wielding sabers and broadswords and a miscellany of pole arms, came twoscore Freefighters of the Morguhn Company and, after them, the battered remnants of the Confederation infantry, mostly spearless now but no less deadly with shortsword and shield.

But a few prearranged signals brought the guards to me, and twoscore of my pikemen and halberdiers proved quite sufficient to halt the ill-armed folk there congregated.

The first prize was to be twoscore and ten golden pounds, a silver bugle horn inlaid with gold, and a quiver with ten white arrows tipped with gold and feathered with the white swan's-wing therein.

A negro teamster who had been dancing upon a cracker box with the hilarious encouragement of twoscore soldiers was deserted.

How ever much the legionaries outnumbered the twoscore or so assassins, they had not beaten them down without harm to themselves.

At the auction, there were the usual oddments-woven willow baskets, two barrels of soft wheat flour, three second-class hand - and - a - half blades, twoscore wool and linen carpets from Hamor .