Halberds [noun]

A violent blow drew him from his ecstasy; his hat had been knocked off with the stroke of a soldier's halberd.

You have a halberd and I a sword, let us start our wanderings over the world.

The next moment M. de Piles fell, pierced by the halberd of one of the archers of the guard.

He was endued with a buff jerkin, wore a broad belt and cutlass by his side, and carried a halberd in his hand.

The jangle of a halberd as its bearer let the butt drop heavily on the stone steps added force to the summons.

He had been regarding with interest a shackled-kneed varlet holding a halberd in his arms as if it had been a fractious bairn.

He regained his feet, lifted his halberd, and would have brained Roger then and there had not another interposed his pike.

Partisan, pr′ti-zan, n. a kind of halberd or long-handled weapon, common in the Middle Ages: a soldier armed with such a weapon.

Zwingle, silent and collected, like nature before the bursting of the tempest, was there also halberd in hand.

Each struck with the sword or with the halberd: at last the soldiers of the Five Cantons were driven back in disorder.