halberdier

Examples

• All

• This battle, it's not quite one on my side and my heroic halberdiers, we're holding this flank for a good amount of the time have actually now been destroyed.

• Santangel and Columbus walk through the gardens, escorted by halberdiers.

  Fiction book (1992)

• His men start to enter the river, led by a halberdier.

  Fiction book (1992)

• Yep, the only other infantry left standing are these halberdiers and that hell cannon trying to do work.

• They asked the painter why are there halberdiers in the painting?

• And yet, Louis... ...I hear that you're not averse to exchanging exercise... ...on a new horse for standing to attention in the hot sun... ...like a halberdier.

  The Draughtsman's Contract (1982)

• Thirty blacksmiths, twenty-eight halberdiers, twenty carpenters, a hundred farmers, twenty miners... and Doctor Chanca, the royal surgeon.

  Fiction book (1992)

• With their pipe shell broken, the dismounted Austrian Knights were no match for the lethal Swiss halberdiers, who quickly poured through the breach and began their unstoppable charge.

• The Duke himself presided, flanked by his halberdiers.

• Santangel and Columbus walk through the gardens, escorted by halberdiers.

Synonyms

M

man-at-arms

vshalberdier

• Archaic

2 9.9

A soldier in medieval times who wears heavy armour and fights on horseback

is a foot guard armed with a pole weapon rather than a mounted fighter

P

pikeman

vshalberdier

• Archaic

1 9.9

A soldier from long ago who carried a long spear to fight

is armed with a pole weapon combining blade and spike rather than a spear

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology