Noun: arblast
| Singular | arblast |
| Plural | arblasts |
Sample Sentences
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“[…] Here be two arblasts, comrade, with windlaces and quarrells—to the barbican with you, and see you drive each bolt through a Saxon brain.” [1819 December 20 (indicated as 1820), Walter Scott, chapter XIV, in Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume II, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC, page 281:]
Nouns inflected like arblast
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English arblast, from late Old English arblast, from Old French arbaleste (modern French arbalète), from Late Latin arcuballista, from Latin arcus (“bow”). See: Middle English Nouns '
arblast', Middle English Nouns '
arblast', Old English Nouns '
arblast', Latin Nouns '
arcus'.