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arbalist

arbalist is the alternative form of arbalest.

Meaning of arbalest

Noun

arbalest (plural arbalests)

  1. A steel crossbow.
    • He excelled with the arbalest steel crossbow, winning the nickname the Arbalestier and joined Bahriyya regiment, the crack soldiers who defeated the Crusaders and became known as the Turkish Lions and the Islamic Templars.2011, Simon Sebag Montefiore, Jerusalem: The Biography – A History of the Middle East, page 329
  2. A crossbowman who uses an arbalest.

Forms of arbalist

pluralarbalists

Questions about arbalist

What is arbalist the alternative form of?
Arbalist is the alternative form of arbalest.

Words near arbalist in the dictionary

  1. arbalestrier
  2. arbalestriers
  3. arbalests
  4. arbalet
  5. arbalets
  6. arbalist
  7. arbalister
  8. arbalisters
  9. arbalists
  10. Arballo
  11. Arballos

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Adapted from Wiktionary: arbalist (page history and authors); arbalest (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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