spontoonn.

Brit.

/spɒnˈtuːn/, U.S.

/ˌspɑnˈtun/

Etymology: < French sponton (also esponton espontoon n.), = Spanish esponton (Portuguese espontão), < Italian spontone, spuntone, < puntone, punto point.

Now historical.

A species of half-pike or halberd carried by infantry officers in the 18th century (from about 1740). The Italian form spontone is used as a foreign word by Barret Theor. Warres (1598) iv. iv. 113.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > sharp weapon > pike > [noun] > half-pike

half-pikea1607

rapparee1690

spontoon1746

espontoon1772

boarding-pike1802

xyston1856

1746 Dk. of Cumberland in 10th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1885) App. i. 443 I dare say there was neither Soldier nor Officer..who did not kill their one or two Men with their Bayonets & Spontoons.

1746 London Mag. 242 The Spontoon..is a Weapon used of late Years by the Officers of Foot instead of the Half-Pike.

1769 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. (new ed.) III. iv. 64 The nose was very long, narrow, and sharp-pointed, not unlike the end of a spontoon.

1786 Gentleman's Mag. Apr. 350/1 The officers who mounted guard..were paraded with their swords drawn instead of spontoons, for the first time since the regulation took place.

1802 C. James New Mil. Dict. (at cited word) When the spontoon was planted, the regiment halted; when pointed forwards, the regiment marched; and when pointed backwards, the regiment retreated.

1819 W. Scott Legend of Montrose xiii, in Tales of my Landlord 3rd Ser. IV. 280 I am just now like the half-pike or spontoon of Achilles, one end of which could wound, and the other cure.

1841 R. W. Emerson Ess. (1876) 1st Ser. xii. 284 Like the spontoons and standards of the militia, which play such pranks in the eyes and imaginations of school-boys.

in extended use.?a1786 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) I. 198 From the gilded Spontoon to the Fife I was ready; I asked no more but a Sodger laddie.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	spontoon
释义	spontoonn. Brit. /spɒnˈtuːn/, U.S. /ˌspɑnˈtun/ Etymology: < French sponton (also esponton espontoon n.), = Spanish esponton (Portuguese espontão), < Italian spontone, spuntone, < puntone, punto point. Now historical. A species of half-pike or halberd carried by infantry officers in the 18th century (from about 1740). The Italian form spontone is used as a foreign word by Barret Theor. Warres (1598) iv. iv. 113. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > sharp weapon > pike > [noun] > half-pike half-pikea1607 rapparee1690 spontoon1746 espontoon1772 boarding-pike1802 xyston1856 1746 Dk. of Cumberland in 10th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1885) App. i. 443 I dare say there was neither Soldier nor Officer..who did not kill their one or two Men with their Bayonets & Spontoons. 1746 London Mag. 242 The Spontoon..is a Weapon used of late Years by the Officers of Foot instead of the Half-Pike. 1769 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. (new ed.) III. iv. 64 The nose was very long, narrow, and sharp-pointed, not unlike the end of a spontoon. 1786 Gentleman's Mag. Apr. 350/1 The officers who mounted guard..were paraded with their swords drawn instead of spontoons, for the first time since the regulation took place. 1802 C. James New Mil. Dict. (at cited word) When the spontoon was planted, the regiment halted; when pointed forwards, the regiment marched; and when pointed backwards, the regiment retreated. 1819 W. Scott Legend of Montrose xiii, in Tales of my Landlord 3rd Ser. IV. 280 I am just now like the half-pike or spontoon of Achilles, one end of which could wound, and the other cure. 1841 R. W. Emerson Ess. (1876) 1st Ser. xii. 284 Like the spontoons and standards of the militia, which play such pranks in the eyes and imaginations of school-boys. in extended use.?a1786 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) I. 198 From the gilded Spontoon to the Fife I was ready; I asked no more but a Sodger laddie. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1746
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