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Перевод: arbalest

[существительное]
арбалет ; самострел

Тезаурус:

1. Corbett glimpsed the arbalest in the midget's hand and, in the poor light, the shimmering sharpness of the lethal bolt waiting to be fired.
2. He positioned the arbalest, leaned over the wall and released the catch.
3. The crossbow bolts and the arbalest have been hidden away.
4. A stocky, red-faced fellow with hairy warts round his mouth grinned a gap-toothed smile, pulled open a shutter and let fly with a huge arbalest.
5. He leaned against it, winching the arbalest back, cursing, his eyes stinging with sweat as he placed the quarrel.
6. And, using all his force, he ran and crashed into the second assassin, who was winching back the arbalest for another bolt.
7. Hand crossbow, rolling purchase arbalest and Moorish three-pointed dagger; all used on the crusades and during Barbarossa's Italian campaigns.
8. A small arbalest or miniature crossbow swung from his belt, a bolt already in place.
9. Maltote, watched by all, loaded the arbalest and aimed at the door.
10. Corbett pointed to the arbalest which swung from his saddle horn.
11. He took a torch from the iron bracket, picked up an arbalest leaning against the wall, as well as a stout leather quiver filled with vicious barbed quarrels.
12. Horne moved suddenly, his hand going to the small arbalest which swung from his belt.
13. On the Continent the arbalest or crossbow was used extensively, and crossbowmen often formed an individual armoured unit, both for defensive purposes and as a serious threat to charging cavalry.