galthrapとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

galthrap (plural galthraps)

1. Archaic form of caltrop.
   • 1722, Isaac Kimber, The History of England, from the Earliest Accounts of Time, to the Death of the Late Queen Anne: In Four Volumes. ..., page 383:

     ... Galthrap into his Bed, which having three Iron Spikes, very sharp, stood up- wards, so that if he had chanced to have lyen down up- on it, it was almost impossible for him to have escaped Death, but discovering it before he went […]

   • 1846, John Burke, Bernard Burke, A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain & Ireland, page 672:

     ... galthrap, of the first. Crest - A galthrap on a hill, ppr.

   • 2016 September 1, Syed Ramsey, Tools of War: History of Weapons in Ancient Times, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd, →ISBN:

     ... (... galthrap, galtrap, Jackrock calthrop or crow's foot) is an antipersonnel weapon made up of two or more sharp nails or spines arranged in such a manner that one of them always points upward from a stable base (for example, a tetrahedron) […]