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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These articles, with our fur robes and blankets, a fish-spear, and a spontoon which I discovered, were all I dared attempt to save.
From The Little Red Foot by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
He was now a solemn stalking-horse, bearing a rigid, buckram-mailed showman, whose only sound or movement resided in the plates of his armour, or his lath sword or gilded spontoon.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 21 by Alexander Leighton
One weighed tentatively that delicate weapon, a spontoon; a second stroked his halberd, as liking to feel the smoothness of the shaft, while a third reached for a gleaming "Folard's Partizan."
From The Lady of the Mount by Frederic Stewart Isham
"There is nothing in it," replied Goldsmith, starting up with impatience, "give me a spontoon; I can do it as well myself."
From Dr. Johnson's Works: Life, Poems, and Tales, Volume 1 The Works of Samuel Johnson, Ll.D., in Nine Volumes by Samuel Johnson
The broad lance subsisted till lately in the halberd; the spear and framea in the long pike and spontoon; the missile weapons in the war hatchet, or North American tomahawk.
From The Germany and the Agricola of Tacitus by Cornelius Tacitus
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