arblast
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English arblast, from late Old English arblast, from Old French arbaleste (modern French arbalète), from Late Latin arcuballista, from Latin arcus (“bow”).
Pronunciation
Noun
arblast (plural arblasts)
- (historical) A wooden crossbow with a special drawing mechanism, used to fire bolts, stones, etc.
- 1819 December 20 (indicated as 1820), Walter Scott, chapter XIV, in Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume II, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC, page 281:
- “ […] Here be two arblasts, comrade, with windlaces and quarrells—to the barbican with you, and see you drive each bolt through a Saxon brain.”
Anagrams
Old English
Etymology
From Old French arbaleste (modern French arbalète), from Late Latin arcuballista, from Latin arcus (“bow”).
Noun
arblast m
Declension
Strong a-stem:
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | arblast | arblastas |
| accusative | arblast | arblastas |
| genitive | arblastes | arblasta |
| dative | arblaste | arblastum |
Descendants
- English: arblast
References
- Joseph Bosworth, T. Northcote Toller (1898) “arblast”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.