Citations:besague


 * 1855, John Hewitt, Ancient Armour and Weapons in Europe: To the end of the thirteenth century, page 156:
 * The besague was also a carpenter&#39;s tool. Thus Wace, on the invasion of England by the Normans, tells us: "Li charpentiers, ki emprès vindrent, Granz coignies en lor mains tindrent : Doloères è besaguës Orent à lor costez pendues."
 * 1860, John Hewitt, Ancient Armour and Weapons in Europe: The fourteenth century:
 * During the recent movement in the direction of medieval art, the solitude of the “forest banks” has been again disturbed by the besague of the quarry-man, for the purposes of the "marblers" and "tombe-makers" of our own day.
 * 1880, Llewellynn Frederick William Jewitt, Half-hours Among Some English Antiquities, page 119:
 * Arms : The sword, two-handed, with flaming blade, and otherwise; pointed staff, demi-glaive, pole-axe, and halberd; javelin, besague or martel, battle-axe, helmet, shield, etc.