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Перевод: crossbow

[существительное]
самострел ; арбалет

Тезаурус:

1. The chain armour had to be improved to protect the knight against arrows: in western Europe in the eleventh century the powerful crossbow came to be used, and the crusading armies constantly found themselves rained on by showers of arrows from mounted Turkish archers.
2. Crossbow brooch
3. On one occassion he had made a huge crossbow, hoping to throw himself to the mainland, but the elastic snapped, sending him backwards into the school and he had spent two weeks finding his way out.
4. Hand crossbow, rolling purchase arbalest and Moorish three-pointed dagger; all used on the crusades and during Barbarossa's Italian campaigns.
5. He heard the sound again, followed by the whistle and thud of a crossbow bolt whining overhead to slam into the nearest tree.
6. Among a heap of mundane weaponry - a two-handed flail, spare sword and scabbard, two throwing axes, crossbow, 2 quivers each of 24 crossbow bolts, and a repeating crossbow - the first chest has a complete suit of Plate Armour +1 which the Chaos Warrior is no longer able to use due to his mutated form.
7. In chambers 1a and 1b there are some rotted wooden chairs and tables, a couple of quivers of crossbow bolts and a heap of human bones: the inanimate remains of the Skeletons which once guarded this place.
8. During their "strange relationship", Bryan had shot his friend in the chest with a crossbow, hit him on the head with a medieval mace and slashed at him with a sword, the judge heard.
9. December 4 : 50th anniversary of the start of Operation Crossbow will be commemorated with a special display centred around the V-1 flying-bomb.
10. Corbett grabbed the crossbow, already loaded, which swung from his saddlebow and brought it up, aimed and sent the quarrel deep into the chest of the leading rider.
11. Two or three weeks ago, a crossbow quarrel narrowly missed my face as we crossed the Lawnmarket.
12. On the Continent the arbalest or crossbow was used extensively, and crossbowmen often formed an individual armoured unit, both for defensive purposes and as a serious threat to charging cavalry.