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
I should propose to him to take a gallant halbert.
From Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume 6 by J. G. (John Gibson) Lockhart
And the crowd pushed forward or halted for a moment, when a soldier stopped the way with a halbert so that those in front might have time to enter the hall.
From The Deluge, Vol. I. (of 2) An Historical Novel of Poland, Sweden, and Russia. by Henryk Sienkiewicz
Here and there he was challenged and his way barred by a lowered halbert, but it was more or less perfunctory, and at the password the way was cleared.
From The Justice of the King by Hamilton Drummond
I grasped the halbert myself and pushed the Duchess back.
From The Story of Francis Cludde by Stanley John Weyman
