A small pike, having a shaft of about half the length of the full-sized one. There were two kinds; one, also called a spontoon, formerly carried…
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| 释义 | society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > sharp weapon > pike > [noun] > half-pike (6) half-pikea1607 A small pike, having a shaft of about half the length of the full-sized one. There were two kinds; one, also called a spontoon, formerly carried… rapparee1690 = half-pike, n.. Obsolete. rare. spontoon1746 A species of half-pike or halberd carried by infantry officers in the 18th century (from about 1740). espontoon1772 A half pike carried by an infantry officer; = spontoon, n. boarding-pike1802 xyston1856 (See quot. 1856, and cf. sarissa, n.) |
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