arblastとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Old French arbaleste (modern French arbalète), from Late Latin arcuballista, from Latin arcus (“bow”).

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈɑːblɑːst/
• (米国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈɑɹblæst/

名詞

arblast (複数形 arblasts)

1. (historical) A wooden crossbow with a special drawing mechanism, used to fire bolts, stones, etc.
   • 1820, Walter Scott, chapter XIV, in Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume II, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC, page 281:

     “ […] Here be two arblasts, comrade, with windlaces and quarrells—to the barbican with you, and see you drive each bolt through a Saxon brain.”

アナグラム

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