spontoon meaning in Hindi

Examples

1. As late as the 1890s, the spontoon could still be seen accompanying marching soldiers.
2. The spontoon was one of few pole weapons that stayed in use long enough to make it into American history.
3. Its last flowering was the half-pike or spontoon, a shortened version of the pike carried by officers and NCOs.
4. During the Napoleonic Wars, the spontoon was used by Sergeants to defend the colours of a battalion or regiment from cavalry attack.
5. After the musket replaced the pike as the primary weapon of the foot soldier, the spontoon remained in use as a signalling weapon.
6. Unlike the pike, which was an extremely long weapon ( typically 14 or 15 feet ), the spontoon measured only 6 or 7 feet in overall length.
7. The word itself derives from that of a pole weapon, the " spontoon ", which was carried by infantry officers of the British Army during the Revolutionary period.
8. Italians might have been the first to use the spontoon, and, in its early days, the weapon was used for combat, before it became more of a symbolic item.
9. At the Battle of Cowpens during the American Revolution, a spontoon was used by Captain Anderson of Maryland to pole vault to a British cannon and capture it just before it could be fired.
10. He received the first charging Cameron on the point of his spontoon, but then a second cut him through the head to chin, making him the only high-ranking Government soldier to be killed in the battle.