wheelspoke

Updated: June 2, 2025

And now it was the turn of the Old Town to triumph. Our late discomfited host, returning on its steps, overwhelmed the fallen champion with blows of every kind, and then, led on by his vanquisher who had assumed his arms, namely, the wheelspoke and wicker shield, fairly cleared the brae of their adversaries, whom they drove down headlong into the morass.

George Henry Borrow - Lavengro: The Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest