Crossword-Solution: ARBALESTS 9 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 11

CXX Dripping and foul with water and with weeds, 'Mid fire and stone, and arbalests, and bows, On drives the chief; as through the marshy reeds, The wild-swine of our own Mallea goes; Who makes large day-light wheresoe'er he speeds, Parting the sedge with breast and tusk and nose.

Ten archers, with thirty shipmen, under the master, may hold the waist while ten lie aloft with stones and arbalests.

Thereon stones began to fly, and arbalests were bended, till the Maid turned, and, facing the throng, her banner lifted as in anger-- "Back, my good friends and people of Orleans," she said, "back and open the postern door in the great tower on the river wall.

Then, all orderly, marched forth a band of men in the colours of Florent d'Illiers, bearing scaling-ladders, and so began the escalade, their friends backing them by shooting of arbalests from behind the remnant of the palisade.

Our bullets and cannonballs have lengthened into bolts like those which whistled out of old arbalests.