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half-pike

  [haf-pahyk, hahf-]
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–noun
1. spontoon.
2. a short pike formerly used by sailors boarding enemy vessels.
Origin:
1590–1600
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spon⋅toon

  [spon-toon]
–noun
a shafted weapon having a pointed blade with crossbar at its base, used by infantry officers in the 17th and 18th centuries.
Also called half-pike.

Origin:
1590–1600; < F esponton < It spuntone, equiv. to s- ex- 1 + puntone kind of weapon (lit., pointed object) (punt(o) point + -one aug. suffix)
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