Word.ws English Dictionary

balisters

balisters is the plural of balister.

Meaning of balister

Noun

balister (plural balisters)

  1. (obsolete) A crossbow.
    • From thence to the door of the Church was made a Gallery about three foot broad, with a Balister on each side, and both on one side, and the other were placed Benches for the Criminals and their Godfathers to sit on1688, Gabriel Dellon, The History of the Inquisition as it is Exercised at Goa
  2. (obsolete) An arbalister or crossbowman.
    • standeth the cunning Balister1642, Thomas Goodwin, Romanae historiae anthologia recognita et aucta

Questions about balisters

What is balisters the plural of?
Balisters is the plural of balister.

Words near balisters in the dictionary

  1. balistae
  2. balistarii
  3. balistarius
  4. balistas
  5. balister
  6. balisters
  7. balistically
  8. balistid
  9. balistids
  10. balistiform
  11. balistocardiogram

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: balisters (page history and authors); balister (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “balisters.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/balisters. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.