espringal

English

Noun

espringal (plural espringals)

1. Alternative form of springald
   • 2016, Henry Pratap Phillips, The History and Chronology of Gunpowder and Gunpowder Weapons (c.1000 to 1850), Notion Press (→ISBN)

     The espringal (Fig. 4.4(a)), or the wall-crossbow, was merely an enlarged version of the hand crossbow. It fired heavier quarrels or large balls of stone to break down enemy strongholds such as gates fortresses and castles.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “espringal”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• graplines, pearlings, presignal, rapelings, relapsing, spanglier