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halberdier

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hal·berd  (hlbrd, hôl-) also hal·bert (-brt)
n.
A weapon of the 15th and 16th centuries having an axlike blade and a steel spike mounted on the end of a long shaft.
[French hallebarde, from Old French alabarde, from Old Italian alabarda, from Middle High German helmbarde, halmbarte : helm, handle + barte, ax (from Old High German barta; see bhardh-- in Indo-European roots).]
halber·dier (-br-dîr) n.
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Noun1.halberdierhalberdier - a guard who carries a halberd (as a symbol of his duty)
guard - a person who keeps watch over something or someone
Translations
halberdier
n → Hellebardier m


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Jones did not think fit to acquaint the serjeant with his design; though he might have done it with great safety, for the halberdier was himself a man of honour, and had killed his man.
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Fielding, Henry View in context
The twenty men marched straight toward the barrier, but from behind the beams, from among the wagon-wheels and from the heights of the rocks a terrible fusillade burst forth and at the same time Planchet's halberdiers appeared at the corner of the Cemetery of the Innocents, and Louvieres's bourgeois at the corner of the Rue de la Monnaie.
Twenty Years After by Dumas, Alexandre View in context
They were the eyes of giant crustacea crouched in their holes; giant lobsters setting themselves up like halberdiers, and moving their claws with the clicking sound of pincers; titanic crabs, pointed like a gun on its carriage; and frightful-looking poulps, interweaving their tentacles like a living nest of serpents.
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