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halbert
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Halbert
English
Alternative forms
halberd
Noun
halbert
(
plural
halberts
)
(
weaponry
)
An
ancient
long-handled
weapon
, of which the
head
had a
point
and several long, sharp
edges
,
curved
or
straight
, and sometimes additional points. The heads were sometimes of very
elaborate
form.
1786
, Francis Grose,
A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons
, page 52:
Halberts
are of a variety of forms, they are commonly
mounted
on
staves
of seven feet long, with a pointed
ferril
at the end, for the purpose of sticking them in the ground.
Translations
long-handled weapon
Dutch:
Hellebaard
Finnish:
pertuska
(fi)
Lithuanian:
alebarda
f
Russian:
алебарда
/al'ebárda/
f
Anagrams
Barthel
,
blather
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