arblaste (1121-25)
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arblaste (1121-25)

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  FEW:  arcuballista 25,109a Gdf: ∅ GdfC:  arbaleste 8,164a TL: arbaleste 1,493 DEAF:  arbaleste  DMF:  arbalète  TLF:  arbalète  OED:  arbalest n.  MED:  arblast n.  DMLBS:  arbalista 116a
alblast,  alblaster,  alblat;  albrastre;  aleblaste,  aleblaust;  arbalaste,  arbaleste,  arbelaste,  arbeleste;  arblait,  arbleste;  arcbaleste;  areblaste,  areblat;  harbblast,  harublaster, 
pl. arblas  

s.

1 mil. weapons balista, cross-bow: 
( 1121-25; MS: s.xiv1 )  Esturbeiluns plus tost ne vait, […] Ne li quarels d’arbaleste  1151
( 1155; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  Od fundes e od arbalestes [...] Jettent pierres e quarrels traient  3041
( MS: s.xii )  balista: balista genus arcus est qui gallice dicitur arbalaste  i 32
( MS: s.xiii2 )  hec balea .i. funda vel instrumentum quod vulgus vocat ‘arblaste’  i 387
( 1318 )  si fut tret de un quarrel de arblaste  24.21
( 1323-25 )  jeo trovoi arcbalestes de vyz de deux peez  51
( 1377 )  fuistes por arcz arblastes  162
2 implement domestic mouse-trap: 
( MS: s.xiii2 )  muccipula, instrumentum ad mures capiendos sic docta dicta quia mures stringat gallice:  ii 172
arblaste a un, deux pé
pé#1
arblaste a tur
1 mil. weapons balista, heavy cross-bow that could be rested on a parapet (?): 
( 1194-99; MS: s.xiii2 )  Un enemis al creatur Teneit une arb[a]laste a tur; Al serjant traist par une archiere, Si[l] feri el piz desoz la chiere  3567
arblaste de troille
1 mil. weapons balista, cross-bow furnished with a winding mechanism: 
( MS: s.xiii )  balistas trocleatas: arbelastes de truyl  ii 151
( MS: s.xiii/xiv )  balistas trocleatas: aleblaz de trolle  ii 147
arblastee  arblastele  arblaster  balastre 
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