Crossword-Solution: PALSTAVE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Palstave | n. | A peculiar bronze adz, used in prehistoric Europe about the middle of the bronze age. |
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| Celt | 29 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
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ARETE
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greedy person
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Sentences with PALSTAVE (5)
CHAPTER III, 23 First and later periods of the Bronze Age; Evolution of the bronze celt; Ornamentation of bronze celts; Palstave with double loops; Anvil and hammers; Spear-heads; Evolution from the knife-dagger; Type derived from the rapier; Leaf-shaped spear-heads; Spear-heads with apertures in the blade; Moulds for casting spear-heads; Ferules for spear-butts.
There is one palstave, with double loops, in the National Collection; and another was found in Ireland at Ballincollig, County Cork, and is in the Evans collection.
From the finds in Bavarian graves it appears that the chief weapons were the dagger and the long pointed _Palstab_ (palstave), while a short dagger fixed like an axe on a long shaft is characteristic of the North.
The flat axes are distinguished by the side stops and in some cases the transition from palstave to socketed axe can be seen.
There is a bronze mould in the British Museum that was itself cast in a mould of clay, formed round a model palstave, and attached to it by string, which was of course reproduced in the metal.