halberd
noun
a shafted weapon with an axlike cutting blade, beak, and apical spike, used especially in the 15th and 16th centuries.
halbert
-
a variation of
halberd.
Example Sentences
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Just within the gate stood a brazier full of glowing coal, and beside it a halbert rested against the wall.
From The Story of Francis Cludde by Stanley John Weyman
The spear and the arrow, the halbert and lance, and who shall be first to yield?
From Montezuma An Epic on the Origin and Fate of the Aztec Nation by Hiram Hoyt Richmond
He did cast the dart, throw the bar, put the stone, practise the javelin, the boar-spear or partizan, and the halbert.
From The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VII (of X)—Continental Europe I by Henry Cabot Lodge
He saw hostile warriors in coloured jerkins and with shining weapons, with spear and halbert, pitching their tents and striking them again.
From What the Moon Saw: and Other Tales by H. W. (Henry William) Dulcken
An armed figure holding a halbert; so also in the copy.
From The Stones of Venice, Volume II (of 3), by John Ruskin
