arbalest

This distinctive form of the arbalest shaft is carefully kept in view in the illumination from Add.

Through an arrow-slit he had watched him take down and examine an arbalest, place it on the table and sit down to write.

And hark ye, by the way, unwind the arbalest before you cross; it is ever well to be on the safe side.

The cross-bow, or arbalest, does not appear to have been used in war until the close of the twelfth century.