Crossword-Solution: CALTROP 7 letters, 11 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

The lofty tower facing the east, she designated "the variegated and flowery Hall;" bestowing on the line of buildings, facing the west, the appellation of "the Hall of Occult Fragrance;" and besides these figured such further names as: "the Hall of peppery wind," "the Arbour of lotus fragrance," "the Islet of purple caltrop," "the Bank of golden lotus," and the like.

THIS SHARP-POINTED INSTRUMENT WAS THROWN ON THE GROUND TO IMPEDE AN ENEMY'S INFANTRY AND CAVALRY.] CALTROP This small item unearthed at Jamestown is an instrument with 4 iron points, so arranged that no matter how it lands, 1 point always projects upward, to impede the progress of an enemy's cavalry and to prevent surprise attacks.

Hundreds of pikes, it was said, were already forged, and specimens were freely exhibited of formidable weapons known to military men by the name of "Caltrop" or "Calthorp," intended to impede the passage of cavalry.

VII., was "a ton, out of which issues some plant, perhaps a _caltrop_, which might be contracted to the first syllable of his name." This appears to be too violent a contraction.

EXPEDITION OF ALEXANDER _Frontispiece._ ALEXANDER AND BUCEPHALUS 27 MAP OF MACEDON AND GREECE 48 MAP OF MACEDON AND GREECE 58 MAP OF THE PLAIN OF TROY 88 PARIS AND HELEN 94 ACHILLES 97 MAP OF THE GRANICUS 104 THE BATHING IN THE RIVER CYDNUS 124 MAP OF THE PLAIN OF ISSUS 134 THE SIEGE OF TYRE 157 THE FOCUS 185 THE CALTROP 197 ALEXANDER AT THE PASS OF SUSA 211 PROPOSED IMPROVEMENT OF MOUNT ATHOS 261 [Illustration: MAP.