arbalist

Other forms of arbalist

plural

arbalists·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about arbalist

What does arbalist mean?

arbalist means "an engine that provided medieval artillery used during sieges; a heavy war engine for hurling large stones and other missiles".

How many syllables are in arbalist?

arbalist has 3 syllables: ar-ba-list. The stress falls on "ar".

What is another word for arbalist?

Close synonyms include catapult, arbalest, ballista, bricole, mangonel. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is arbalist a common word?

arbalist is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.