Meaning

(obsolete) A crossbow or ballista..

Definitions by Sense

1. (obsolete) A crossbow or ballista.
2. Alternative form of baluster; a short pillar.
3. A brace on a brass instrument that helps hold the valves in place.

Example Sentences

Their ramparts were armed with 3,000 ballisters to shoot javelins with and 500 catapults.

On their E. side are four round solid towers, at the top of wach of which is a slight depression, supposed to have contained a watch turret or some implement of warfare, such as a ballister.

He orderd that the crippled should be flung by a ballister and the blind should be dragged from Delhi to Daulatabad, a distance of 40 days .

The choir, which is separated from the body of the church by a ballister, is darkned by the great number of escutcheons affixed to it .

In the fourth cavity, which is much the largest, and is in the centre of this upper surace, a ballister was in all likelihood inserted; its use was to support the tripod, and to give it that stability which its situation required .

Hooker billed Van Rensselaer $6.25 on 17 August 1820 for timber, dressing turning, carting, setting [and] painting a ballister for & setting a sun dial.

It's a ballister shape with handles made of boxwood.

Solid nickel silver ballisters and mouthpipe for longer wear, better tone, ease of blowing.

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