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Synonyms for spontoon
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : spon-toon |
| Phonetic Transcription : spɒnˈtun |
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Définition of spontoon
- As in cudgel : noun baton for hitting
- Lady Emily is to be your nurse, and Spontoon and I your attendants.
- Extract from : « Waverley » by Sir Walter Scott
- We have taken measures to exclude all servants but Spontoon, who is as true as steel.'
- Extract from : « Waverley » by Sir Walter Scott
- The wolves which had been feasting on these carcasses were very fat, and so gentle that one of them was killed with a spontoon.
- Extract from : « With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 1 » by Various
- Spontoon' (to an elderly military-looking servant out of livery),'take away these things, and answer the bell yourself, if I ring.
- Extract from : « Waverley, Or 'Tis Sixty Years Hence, Complete » by Sir Walter Scott
- I must send Spontoon to see what she is about; he will find her out among the old regimental connections.
- Extract from : « Waverley, Or 'Tis Sixty Years Hence, Complete » by Sir Walter Scott
- I must send Spontoon to see what she is about; he will find her out among the old regimental connexions.
- Extract from : « Waverley » by Sir Walter Scott
- When Balbi wrote that his walls were hung with pictures of saints, it became a question of conveying the spontoon to him.
- Extract from : « The Historical Nights' Entertainment » by Rafael Sabatini
- Holding his spontoon ready, but concealed under his coat, he stepped to the side of the door.
- Extract from : « The Historical Nights' Entertainment » by Rafael Sabatini
- My mercer had his spontoon in his hand, as if he measured his cloth by that implement, instead of a legitimate yard.
- Extract from : « The Antiquary, Complete » by Sir Walter Scott
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