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Dictionary of
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Origin and Etymology of the Surname ARBLASTER.
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From An
Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names, by William
Arthur, M. A., 1857.
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ARBLASTER.
v. Alabaster.
Arthur has: a corruption of Balistarius,
a cross-bowman, one who directed the great engines of war used before the
invention of cannon.
"In
the kernils (battlements) here and there,
Of Arblastirs great plenty were."
ROM. OF THE
ROSE.
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