spontoon
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of spontoon
1590–1600; < French esponton < Italian spuntone, equivalent to s- ex- 1 + puntone kind of weapon (literally, pointed object) ( punt ( o ) point + -one augmentative suffix)
Example Sentences
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I felt a momentary solace in hearing him order one of his men to follow with the armchair, where my spontoon was still concealed.
From The True Story Book by Lang, Andrew
When left alone, he examined it carefully, and realised that if pointed, it would make an excellent spontoon.
From The True Story Book by Lang, Andrew
When Balbi wrote that his walls were hung with pictures of saints, it became a question of conveying the spontoon to him.
From The Historical Nights' Entertainment First Series by Sabatini, Rafael
Using as a whetstone a small slab of black marble, similarly acquired, he had shaped that bolt into a sharp octagonal-pointed chisel or spontoon.
From The Historical Nights' Entertainment First Series by Sabatini, Rafael
Seest thou not how many a sergeant grows grey with his spontoon that deserved to have a company before many others.
From The Adventurous Simplicissimus being the description of the Life of a Strange vagabond named Melchior Sternfels von Fuchshaim by Grimmelshausen, Hans Jacob Christoph von
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