bear spear

This done, they kneel, or lie down, and, with their bear spears by their side, wait for the game.

She nodded at two old men and they stepped forward, bearing spears folded into two pieces.

Behind them, bearing spears and swords, the Highland women rushed at the attackers.

All of them were armed with scythes, pitchforks, axes, bear spears and so on.

The bear spear was a medieval type of spear used in hunting for bears and other large animals.

The sharpened head of a bear spear was enlarged and usually had a form of a bay leaf.

When you see this man, he looks thin and weak, unable to bend bows and unable to bear spears.

On the lower half of plate E, a line of warriors bearing spears and shields march to the left accompanied by carnyx players.

The bear spear was similar to a boar spear, but it had a longer and harder shaft and a larger head.

They were younger men, mostly, bearing spears or bows, and all wearing the same fringed and beaded buckskins.

Hobbling about, Gibany hurried the workers and formed a screen of huntresses bearing spears and shields.

This early eighth century slab shows a striking procession of three Picts dressed in long robes and bearing spears, swords and square shields.

They live in tree houses and caves, wear animal skins, bear spears and bows and arrows, and live for adventure.

The town name also can be connected with the Slavish word "Rogatyna" which means a heavy spear for martial arts or bear hunting ("Bear Spear").

The bear spear was used against the largest animals, not only bears, but also wisents and war horses, thus not only in hunting, but in warfare as well.

He looked delighted as he watched a tukuwaka, or welcome ceremony, performed by traditional warriors in grass skirts and body paint, bearing spears, clubs and bows and arrows.

Mycenaean armies shared several common features with other significant Late Bronze Age powers: they were initially based on heavy infantry, which bear spears, large shields and in some occasions armor.

"We're so happy she's back," said 16-year-old Justin Scarbrough of New Orleans, wearing a T-shirt he designed himself that bears Spears' image and the words "I Support Britney Spears."

In Germany, the bear spear or Bärenspieß was known from at least the Late Middle Ages but was rather rare when compared to Eastern Europe due to the much smaller bear population.

The offensive armament in use by Petyhorcy included a 3 to 4-metres-long lance of bear spear (rohatyna), as well as a Polish sabre, two pistols and a musket carbine or an eastern-type bow.

Traditionally Roman Cavalry was neither heavily armored nor all that effective, the Roman Equites corps were mainly comprised of lightly armored horsemen bearing spears and swords to chase down stragglers and routing enemies.

But if he could get rid of all these bear spears, and these scythe-blade things, whatever they were called, and get the spearmen armed with eighteen-foot Swiss pikes, then they'd keep the cavalry off his arquebusiers and calivermen.

The mainstream media seized upon inspirational and patriotic images, such as the picture of the three firemen; thus began a sort of mythification of the day into which George W. Bush and Rudolph Giuliani entered, bearing spears and shields.

It seems that the thorakitai were heavily armored thureophoroi, able to bear spears and do battle in a phalanx as well as engage in irregular warfare in situations when such an action was required for tactical reasons, like to exploit or challenge rough terrain.