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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About thirty or forty men, each armed with a spontoon, a bow, and arrows, stood drawn up on a rising ground close by the village.
From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 16 by Kerr, Robert
Recovered, he took up his spontoon, which he had placed in the gutter, and, assisted by it, he climbed back to the dormer.
From The Historical Nights' Entertainment First Series by Sabatini, Rafael
Then I said: “O Pagolo, my son, did the spontoon then pierce through your armour?”
From Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini by Symonds, John Addington
With his spontoon he tested the timbers, and found them so decayed that they almost crumbled at the touch.
From The Historical Nights' Entertainment First Series by Sabatini, Rafael
The nobility, it was said, were the nursery for the spontoon.
From Pictures of German Life in the XVIIIth and XIXth Centuries, Vol. II. by Freytag, Gustav
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