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‖ sarissa Antiq.|səˈrɪsə| Pl. -æ. [Gr. σάρισσα, better σάρῑσα.] A long lance used in the Macedonian phalanx.
1734tr. Rollin's Anc. Hist. (1827) VIII. 69 The sarissæ or long spears. 1856Grote Greece ii. xcii. XII. 77 The sarissa of this cavalry may have been fourteen feet in length. |